Baker v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter for convenience referred to as the defendant, was tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and was sentenced to serve a term of five years in the state penitentiary. Motion for new trial, and motion in arrest of judgment was filed, considered, and overruled, exceptions saved, and the defendant by petition in error with case-made attached has appealed to this court.

The substance of the testimony of the state is as follows :

Mrs. Mary Sherfield stated that on the 18th of January, 1927, she was living on the Wayne Boone place in…