Lipscomb v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree the appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Deceased, Thelma Conte, met her death as the result of a fall from a cliff or precipice. The evidence for the State tended to show that defendant threw or pushed her off the cliff. Defendant denied that he did anything to cause her death and insisted she must have fallen from the cliff.

It affirmatively appears that the record does not contain all of the evidence introduced on the trial, nor have the…