State v. Winstead

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

J. C. Winstead and Dave Richey were prosecuted under an indictment charging them with the murder of a young man named Carson Cudd. Winstead was found guilty of manslaughter and Richey of murder without capital punishment. They reserved 26 bills of exception during the trial. Nine of the bills, numbered 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17 and 20, being without merit, were abandoned by counsel for the appellants.

Bill No. 1 was reserved to the overruling of an objection made by the defendants’ attorney to a question which the district attorney asked the coroner on direct…