Morris v. State

Ota. an indictment for murder in the killing of Paul Cooper, Yirgil Morris was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

The essential facts of the case are these: Appellant and deceased were sitting together in front of a cafe in the Town of Heidelberg* when the deceased twitted Morris about having been searched at a show. This resulted in their engaging in a scuffle, and the deceased, being a man about fifty years of age, weighing in the neighborhood of one hundred and eighty pounds, the appellant about nineteen years of age, weighing…