SIMPSON, Justice.
Cooper Drake, a twenty-nine-year-old Negro man, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution for the killing of Dale Holley, a four-year-old white boy. This appeal comes under the automatic appeal statute. Title 15., § 382(1) et seq., Code 1940.
The State's evidence showed that on the afternoon of the homicide, the deceased and his mother, Mrs. Kathleen Holley, were alone at their home near Calera...
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