Gates v. State

Pannell, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter and was given a ten-year sentence. He filed a motion for new trial on the general grounds only, which was overruled. He appealed from the judgment of conviction and sentence and made no contentions in reference to the general grounds of the motion for new trial in his enumerations of error. Held:

1. (a) Where a witness testified that prior to the time she lived with the defendant as his common law wife, she was married to another person who was still living and from whom she had not been divorced, the witness…