Holifield v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

The appellant, Roscoe A. Holifield, was tried by indictment charging him with murder in the first degree of Roscoe Rag-land. The jury returned a verdict finding the appellant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and he was sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a period of ten years, from which he hereby appeals.

The record reveals that the appellant was a middle-aged negro man who, according to the testimony of State’s witness Lorene Flores, represented himself to her as an Indian; and that the deceased was a white man of middle-age who had…