Wright v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction of manslaughter in the first degree, predicated upon an indictment charging the defendant with the offense of murder in the first degree. The punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years.

Innumerable exceptions were reserved upon the trial to the rulings of the court upon the admission and exclusion of evidence. There were also numerous charges refused to defendant, and the insistence is here made that the court erred in refusing' to give these charges.

The evidence in the case discloses, without conflict, that…