State v. Pierfax

The defendant and appellant was charged with murder. He was indicted and prosecuted for that crime, and the trial resulted in a verdict of “guilty of manslaughter.” He was sentenced, under this verdict, to not less than 5 nor more than 10 years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From this verdict and sentence, he has appealed.

There are five bills of exception in the record. Bill No. 2 is subdivided into bills A and B.

The first bill was reserved to the overruling of defendant’s objection to admitting the testimony of witness John Plumbar, and to the court’s subsequent ruling sustaining…