Boggs v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Adair county of the crime of manslaughter* in the first degree in the killing of Vergil Ray, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of 20 years.

The evidence of the state was that defendant shot deceased while he was in his farm wagon, dressed in his farm clothes, and attending to his ordinary farm work; that defendant went to the place where deceased was removing a partition fence, carrying a pistol; that he had just borrowed the pistol from a neighbor;…