McGuigan v. State

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from convictions of involuntary manslaughter. Three points are raised by the appellants, viz.: (1) that error occurred when the trial judge ruled that each of the numbered statements in the indictment should be treated as a separate count and that proof of any one of them was sufficient to support a verdict of guilty; (2) that error occurred when the trial judge ruled that the State had established the corpus delicti; and (3) that error occurred when the trial judge refused to exclude evidence of the drinking of the appellant McGuigan in the absence of…