Phares v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, and upon his first trial was convicted of murder in the second degree. He appealed to this court, and in the opinion reversing the judgment of conviction a statement of the facts may be found. Phares v. State, 155 Ark. 75.

Upon the remand of the cause he was convicted of voluntary, manslaughter and given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary, and has again appealed. The testimony is substantially the same as it was on the former appeal.

Four assignments of error are.urged for the reversal of the judgment. They are: First: That the…