Denison v. State

Redick, District Judge.

The defendant, Lewis Ford Denison, was charged in the information with the crime of murder in the first degree; he-was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seven years, and prosecutes error to this court.

The occasion and circumstances of the tragedy are, to say the least, unusual, and will be briefly stated as furnishing a background for the discussion which follows. The place of the homicide was on a public road near the farm house of one Gabriel Shada, a brother of John Shada, the victim thereof. The Shadas were Syrians, who will…