State v. Jones

The defendant was tried for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and from a sentence of from 10 to 12 years in the penitentiary presents this appeal.

The only bill of exception found in the record relates to the overruling of a motion for a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment.

The motion for a new trial is based on the groond of newly discovered evidence which it is alleged will be produced in the persons of Edward Horace and E. C. Holmes. It is alleged that the defendant did not know of the evidence of the witness Holmes at the time of or during the trial, nor did his counsel, and that…