State v. Turner

FOLLAND, Chief Justice.

In the early morning of July 8, 1936, defendant, John B. Turner, shot and killed a man named Lawrence Rucker in defendant’s place of business, a restaurant at 17 South Third West street in Salt Lake City. Defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree but was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, an included offense. He appeals and assigns eleven errors. They are grouped and argued under four heads: (1) Insufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict of voluntary manslaughter or of any verdict of guilty under the information. That is, the plea…