Woods v. State

Appellant Jordan Woods was indicted for the murder of Clayton Murphy. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter. The judgment of the Circuit Court of Tisho-mingo County based thereon sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary.

Woods contends that he was entitled to a peremptory instruction, for the reason that the evidence does not show that Murphy died of the gunshot wounds inflicted by defendant, and does not show the cause of Murphy’s death. The State’s version of the killing was evidenced by the testimony of two eyewitnesses, Whitehurst Murphy, brother of deceased, and Noonan…