Plummer v. State

Head, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The argument made by counsel for the plaintiff in error (herein called the defendant), in support of the contention that the trial court should have granted a new trial on the general grounds, is that the State failed to show that the defendant ever at any time had any malice or any intention of harming the deceased.

If the only evidence of the homicide had been the statement of the defendant .that he committed the homicide, carrying with it circumstances which, if believed by the jury, would have shown the homicide to have been accidental,…