Cook v. State

1. While the testimony was in sharp conflict, there was evidence to the effect that after the defendant, Arthur Cook, and Eddie Lee Jordan and her two sisters had engaged in a vei'bal battle accompanied with mutual threats, they entered into a struggle for the possession of the defendant’s shotgun which one of the sisters had, and that after a1 tussle the defendant got possession of the gun and shot and killed Eddie Lee Jordan with it when she was five or six feet from him and making no attempt to injure him. The evidence supported the verdict of voluntary manslaughter.

2. Having been indicted…