Keifer v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment in the court below with the crime of murder in the first degree. Upon a trial before a jury, he was found guilty of manslaughter. Thereafter, the court overruled his motion for a new trial and rendered judgment on the verdict. He is now, in this court, relying alone on the alleged error of the trial court in overruling his motion for a new trial.

Although appellant’s motion for a new trial embraces eighty-three alleged causes, he is here relying only on eighteen of them involving various rulings of the trial court made during the trial concerning the…