Harris v. State

On an indictment for murder appellant was convicted by the jury of manslaughter and sentenced by the court below to serve a term of twenty years in the state penitentiary.

The indictment charged murder in the killing- of George Gaden. The killing- is alleged to have occurred on a Saturday night or Sunday morning- at a “supper” — a dice game interspersed with music and dancing. There was a difficulty between George Gaden and the appellant, Harris, after which Harris left the room in which a “crap game” had been in progress and then, according to the state’s evidence, some ten or fifteen minutes…