Jones v. State

The appellant, Dave Jones, was tried and convicted of the murder of John Henry Johnson, and sentenced to serve a life term in the state penitentiary, from which sentence he prosecutes this appeal.

We shall not undertake to detail all the facts of this case more than to say that the issue was narrowed down to the version of two witnesses. The wife of the deceased testified that the-defendant shot and.killed her husband while sitting in his automobile, withorit any cause or reason therefor, and positively identified the appellant as the slayer of her husband. The appellant was the only other…