Gibbs v. State of Arizona

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict of manslaughter. The material facts disclosed by the evidence, construed as strongly as it can reasonably be considered in support of the verdict, may be stated as follows:

About sundown on the 24th day of June, 1935, J. W. Gibbs, hereinafter called defendant, was discovered by Paul Gass standing beside his automobile on Osborne Road, between Seventh and Nineteenth Avenues. The car was facing west, and beside it lay one Amos Remington, face down and unconscious. Defendant was quite drunk at the time. Gass notified the sheriff’s office, and shortly…