Handley v. State

— The writ of error is to review a judgment of conviction of manslaughter under an indictment charging murder in the first degree.

The plaintiff in error in the brief filed in this case presents ten questions for our determination. The first question is:

“Where it appears in evidence that the deceased was shot around one o’clock in the morning and the sheriff, upon being notified between 2:30 and 3:00 o’clock, went to the scene of the shooting, about nineteen miles away, as soon as he could get dressed, and upon arriving there, was told by the defendant that the deceased tried to shoot him, the…