Wood v. State

Raney, C. J.:

The plaintiff in error was tried at the Spring term, 1892, of the Circuit Court in Washington county, upon an indictment charging him with having murdered Samuel Osborne on January 23d, 1889. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the second degree, and the court sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment in the State prison for the period of seven years, to which sentence or judgment he has taken a writ of error.

I. The first error assigned is the refusal of the trial judge to permit the defendant’s counsel to ask Mrs. Reddick, a witness for defendant: “Did Mrs.…