Low v. State

Finly Low, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the circuit court of Anderson county for the homicide of Miller McGee, and was there tried and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary of the State. A new trial was refused, and from the judgment upon the verdict of the jury he has prosecuted an appeal in the nature of a writ of error, to this court and assigns error.

Hon. G. McHenderson, judge of the second judicial circuit, of which Anderson county is a part, was district attorney for that circuit when the indictment was…