Heard v. State

Jackson, Chief Justice.

The defendant was tried and convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and, being denied a new trial, brought the case here for review.

*5991. The first ground of the motion is, that the verdict is contrary to law and the evidence. The evidence shows a fight between the parties, who were brother and sister, springing out of the brother having put the sister’s child, a little boy, in a hog-pen, and ordering him to catch a hog, struck the child, it seems, with a little switch, when it cried, and the mother came out, and the fight ensued. It continued for some time in the…