Ned v. State

Plaintiff in error, Watson Ned, was charged by information with the murder of Will Ritter. Upon the trial the jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of 99 years. A motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial was duly filed, which was overruled, and on the 29th day of May, 1923, judgment was rendered in pursuance of the verdict. To reverse the judgment this appeal was taken by filing in this court on September 24, 1923, a petition in error with ease-made.

Among the assigned grounds for…