Prewitt v. State

Appellant was indicted on a charge of murder, was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals, assigning many grounds of error, the principal of which is as follows:

The state introduced the sheriff as a witness, showed by him, and apparently attached much weight to the fact, that after the homicide the appellant had taken flight, and that two days elapsed before the officers could locate him. He was then found at the home of a sister three or four miles from the court-house; it being further shown that the accused had sent word to the sheriff of his whereabouts, with a request that the sheriff…