People v. Collins

Defendant was tried by jury in Jackson county on an information charging murder of the first degree, with count for manslaughter, committed against one Elmer Parker. For reversal, defendant claims that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence, and that the court was in error in his charge to the jury in several particulars.

The defendant, about 8 o’clock in the evening of April 18,1941, met in the vicinity of the Hayes hotel in the city of Jackson a Miss Kearney with whom he had been keeping company. During the day he had consumed a considerable quantity of intoxicating liquor…