Temples v. State

Ms,. Justice Prewitt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error, J. D. Temples, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on the person of Raymond 0. Widener, with his maximum punishment fixed at seven years in the penitentiary.

There are but two questions raised by the assignments of error: (1) The sufficiency of the evidence, and (2) the failure of the trial judge to approve the verdict.

The defendant shot the deceased Widener with his pistol, firing two shots,,which resulted in his death a few minutes later. The slaying took place…