Walker v. State

The appellant, Walter Walker, was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Tippah county for the murder of Ed K/ainey, and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a period of eight years, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecutes this appeal.

The facts, as testified to by the several witnesses for the state and the defendant, most of which are uncontradicted, are substantially as follows:

The defendant and the deceased were young white men who lived in the same community, and they were together for quite a while on the day of the homicide, and…