Holder v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for killing Jesse Crumley and convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He has appealed in error to this court. The deceased, the defendant, and one Lovelace seem to have been interested in the operation of an illicit still in Washington county. All three were at the still on April 21, 1925. While there a small pistol which plaintiff in error had carried out to the place was discharged, and Crumley was. killed thereby. The great weight of the proof tends to show that the killing was not intentional. A further discussion of the facts will be omitted, since the…