Dunn v. State

The indictment chargés Charlie Dunn and John B. Kemp with murdering Joe Hardison by beating him with a rock and cutting him with a knife. Dunn was tried separately and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His exception here is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial, based upon the usual general grounds and three special grounds. The controlling question is whether or not voluntary manslaughter is involved in the case.

Joe Hardison was killed between 7:30 and 9 o’clock at night on a street in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was struck with a rock in the face and cut with a knife in the…