Dutton v. State

Edward Dutton was charged in the district court of Seminole county with the crime of murder, was tried, convicted of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree with the punishment left to the court. The court, after overruling the motion for a new trial, sentenced the defendant to serve a term of seven years in the State Penitentiary, from which an appeal was taken.

The defendant appealed by transcript and did not file in this court a case-made of the evidence taken at the trial.

It is first contended that the court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for a continuance.

Neither the…