Ray v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. He was by a jury found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. A motion for a new trial was duly filed, and denied by the trial court.

A party was in progress at the home’ of Clay Hearst, the victim in this case, near Panola in Sumter County. A number of negroes attended the party, and at about ten P. M. one of the couples, Archie and’ Ida May Knott, began a quarrel in the front yard of Hearst’s premises.

From this point on the testimony…