Burton v. State

The plaintiff in error, Joe Burton, hereinafter called defendant, was indicted for the murder of Virgil Heatley, found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for the term of 15 years. To reverse the judgment rendered, he prosecutes this appeal.

The defendant relies entirely on questions of law to work a reversal of the judgment rendered in this case. We find it unnecessary, therefore, to recite at length the voluminous evidence in the record, deeming it sufficient to say that the undenied facts are: Prior to the…