Williams v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree, the charge being in two counts, one alleging in effect that the accused with a premeditated design to kill one C, shot and killed a child, Bernice McCoy; the other count alleging in effect that the accused, with a premediated design to kill Bernice McCoy, did fatally shoot her. This writ of error was taken to a conviction for manslaughter, the statutory definition of which is: “ The killing of a human being by the. act, procurement or culpable negligence of another, in cases where such killing shall not be justifiable or…