Thompson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

A meeting was in progress at a negro church. A white man, Keating, had carried negroes to this meeting and was waiting to take them home. Deceased, also a white man and constable of the precinct, came to the place. Another white man, Mims, was also there. The rest of the crowd were negroes. Deceased undertook to take a pistol from one Castleberry who- resisted and attempted to draw a pistol and was shot by deceased. The brothers of Castle-berry rushed up and a general fusillade began. According to the…