Hendrix v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, having been tried under an indictment charging him with the murder in the first degree of J. W. Tidwell.

Since a denial of a motion by the appellant to exclude certain evidence, injected into the trial by a witness for the State, necessitates a reversal of this cause, we will refrain from setting forth the evidence except as may be necessary to illustrate the questioned ruling.

In the trial below the State offered Leon Posey as a witness for the purpose of showing a former difficulty between the appellant and…