Smallwood v. State

The indictment in this ease charges that Harold Smallwood committed the offense of murder by “stabbing, cutting, striking and beating' the said Thurmond Kesler with a certain pocket knife, with the said accused’s fist, and with other weapons to the grand jurors unknown.” The jury found the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and the exception here is to the judgment overruling the motion for a new trial.

The difficulty in question occurred on the night of Oct. 19, 1931, just after a boxing match at Kambler’s _ Inn, “about three miles from Jefferson,” in Jackson county, Ga. D. L. Howard…