People v. Blevins

Plaintiff in error, Newton C. Blevins, was indicted at the August term, 1910, of the circuit court of Johnson county for the murder of James DePalma, an Italian, employed by the Carter Construction Company as foreman of a construction gang which had been engaged in constructing a railroad near Marion, Illinois. Plaintiff in error was a coal miner living at Scottsboro, Williamson county. On June 7, 1910, he and Luke Newton, with four others, went to a place known as “Mason’s Tank,” in Johnson county, on a fishing expedition. They had with them a tent and fishing outfit. Mason’s tank is one of…