Robb v. State

The appellant, Charles E. Robb, was charged, by indictment, with the crime of murder in the first degree, in the killing of Eli Wilson. Upon the trial he was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to imprisonment in the State’s prison for fifteen years. The questions presented in this court *570arise upon the action of the lower court in overruling the appellant’s motion for a new trial.

While conceding that it is contrary to the established practice for this court to pass upon conflicts in the evidence, it is insisted that we should do so in this case. We have looked into the evidence…