Anderson v. State

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

The defendant, S. J. Anderson, was charged with murder in the second degree in the killing of L. J. Avery, a seventeen-year-old boy. He was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

According to the testimony on behalf of the State Anderson, who was 30 years old, Avery and three companions were engaged in a dice game in a shed behind a cafe located on the Princeton Pike several miles from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, about midnight on December 7, 1951. After the Avery boy had lost three or four dollars, he caught or…