Hodges v. State

Appellant, after a severance granted at his request, was tried separately, under an indictment charging him, along with five others, with the offense of murder in the first degree. He was convicted- of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and given a sentence to serve imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of six years and six months.

The evidence on the part of the state tended to show that appellant, with those named in the indictment with him, had entered into an agreement or conspiracy to engage in the unlawful manufacture of whisky and to resist, even to the taking of…