Lewis v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter for convenience referred to as the defendant, was by information charged with the crime of murder, tried and. convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to serve a term of 15 years in the state penitentiary, and appeals.

The testimony on behalf of the state shows that on the 25th day of April, 1933, the deceased Arley or Billie Rowe, Dewey or Speck Rowe, Chester Niblett, and J. L. Patrick had been fishing on Rock creek, a stream about a quarter of a mile west of the Mack Lewis place; about 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon a cloud came up and it…