Wiggins v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for life.

The State’s testimony supported the theory that appellant, a negro, killed deceased, A. B. Crawford, a white man, without provocation. Crawford was not an officer, and, under the record before us, had no right to arrest Jewel Price. Price, a negro, was in his own home, where a pint bottle of whiskey was in view on a table in the room entered by Crawford. Other negroes were present. Crawford arrested Price, placed handcuffs on him, and advised him that he would release him if he would give him fifty…