Pearson v. State

Mr. L. D. Smith, Special Justice,

delivered tbe opinion of the Court.

*387Plaintiff in error, Green Pearson, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, in the circuit court of Hawkins county, for the killing of one James Short, on Sunday, January 11, 1920.

Plaintiff in error assigns several grounds of error to the judgment of conviction.

The first assignment is upon the facts of the case, and to the effect that the evidence preponderates in favor of the innocence of the plaintiff in error.

There is practically no conflict in the evidence as to the facts leading up to the killing. The deceased, Short,…