State v. McDaniel

The appellant, a negro twenty-eight years old, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Greene County Circuit Court and his punishment assessed by a jury at death. The charge was that he shot with a pistol and killed his paramour, a negress named Savilla “Billie” Scott.. His defense on the facts was an alibi. In his brief on this appeal, and in his motion for new trial in the circuit court, errors are assigned: (1) in the transcript of the proceedings at the preliminary hearing in justice court, which was filed in the circuit court as a basis for the prosecution; (2) because the…