PREWITT, Justice.
The defendant Eugene Williamson, a colored man was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the slaying of L.E. Roper and his punishment fixed at thirty years imprisonment.
The killing took place on the church grounds at Belmont Church, situated in the northwestern part of Fayette County near the village of Braden, which lies just south of U.S. Highway 70. The colored people in that community were having a picnic on the church grounds...
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