Cathey v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to serve four years in the penitentiary. All assignments of errors brought forward in the motion for a new trial are abandoned except No. 4, that “The court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a continuance, over the objections and exceptions of the defendant.”

Appellant was one of a group of young men who engaged in a carousal in front of the home of Will Franklin, near the little town of New Edinburg, early in the evening of July 16, 1937. Lamar Beeves was cut, and died several hours later at Franklin’s home,…