Smith v. State

The appellant was indicted by the Lawrence Circuit Court for the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing of one Wash McCutcheon. He was tried, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced by judgment of the court to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of seven years.

1. The appellant contends that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict. It could serve no useful purpose as a precedent to set out and discuss the evidence in detail. Our conclusion is that the cause, is one that should have been submitted to the jury under the evidence, and, since…