Edwards v. State

Appellant was charged by information with the crime of murder in the first degree for the shooting and killing of E. D. Franklin on April 16, 1944. On a trial he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the.penitentiary.

For a reversal of the judgment and sentence appellant first contends that the court erred in instructing the jury in instructions 1, 2, 3 and 4 as to murder in the first and second degrees and giving the statutory definitions of murder and malice. The only objection raised as to these instructions is that there was no evidence sufficient to…