"She was dead, and he had killed her. Me was a murderer, a Negro murderer, a black murderer. He had killed a white woman." (87)
He's terrified. Because he's black and she's a rich white woman, going up to the judge and saying, "my bad; I didn't mean it" isn't going to fly. Not that it would work for anyone, but he would get punished much more severely than a white man. Too bad; she probably did make him lose his job. He was right.
Why did he run home to sleep instead of running away and looking guilty?
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