Walker v. State

The defendant, Peter Walker, was charged by an information filed in the district court of Pontotoc county with the crime of murder; was tried; convicted of manslaughter in the first degree; and pursuant to the verdict of the jury was sentenced to serve twelve years imprisonment • in the State Penitentiary; and has appealed.

The information charged the defendant with taking the life of one Herbert Brown on July 9, 1949, by shooting him with a forty-four caliber Winchester rifle. The defendant, the deceased, and most of the witnesses were negroes. The deceased lived in a three room house in the…