Kesterson v. State

Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

Error is assigned because of the court’s refusal to admit certain testimony, for settling the instructions in the presence of the jury, and for refusal to give instructions as to the crime of voluntary manslaughter at the request of the defendant.

The homicide occurred at the home of George Kesterson, Sr., where a dance was in progress, the deceased and a number of other young men being present. One of the number, Calvin Brown, was stabbed and killed. George Kesterson, Jr., was not at home at that…