Duncan v. People

Ernest Duncan, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Williamson county for the crime of manslaughter, and, on the trial, was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years. The grounds upon which he now seeks to have the conviction set aside and to be awarded a new trial are, first, that the verdict of the jury is unsupported by the evidence, and, second,, that the jury were misled by the instructions as to the law given to them by the court.

The circumstances under which the h-omicide was committed are briefly as follows: On the…