State v. Woodham

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

Under an indictment charging the defendants, Willis J. Woodham and Alva G. Woodham, with the murder of Maxie McKenzie, they were tried at the March, 1930, term of the Court of General Sessions for Gee County, before Judge William H. Grimball and a jury. Both defendants were convicted of manslaughter. Thereafter, a motion for a new trial being refused, they were duly sentenced to serve a term of two years’ imprisonment. From the judgment and sentence of the Court the defendants have appealed to this Court upon exceptions imputing…