State v. Walker

ODOM, Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the crime of manslaughter, convicted as charged, and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary at hard labor.

He appealed from the conviction and sentence, and relies on nine bills of exception, which'disclose the alleged errors complained of. The record discloses that the defendant and the deceased “had a row”, which began in a negro saloon and dance hall known as the “Red Onion” and ended within two or three minutes on the outside of the building. There was evidence to show that, after the so-called “row” on the inside of the building,…