Lancaster v. State

Larkin Lancaster, the appellant, is under sentence of death- for the murder of Zack Dixon. He has been three times tried by Court and jury with same result. The judgment of the Circuit Court has been twice reversed in this Court, and the ease is now here for the third time. A new trial is sought on several grounds.* In the first place, it is contended that the conviction is not sustained by. the evidence; that the proof shows neither the corpus delicti nor the identity of appellant as the murderer.

Zack Dixon, who is alleged to have been murdered, was a black negro boy, seventeen years of age,…