State v. Chiles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Pope.

The appellant was convicted of manslaughter by the jury at a trial had in the Court of General Sessions for Abbeville County, in this State, at the October, 1894, term thereof, and after his honor, Judge Watts, had sentenced him to punishment by confinement in the State Penitentiary for seven years, he appealed therefrom to this court. We will now dispose of the five grounds of appeal.

1 The fifth ground of appeal imputes error to his honor, the presiding judge, “in charging the jury that they might find the defendant guilty of murder…