State v. Craig

Haymond, Judge:

Upon an indictment, returned by a grand jury at the regular June Term, 1947, of the Circuit Court of Preston County, which charged that the defendant, Charles W. Craig, “on the 15th day of February, 1947, in said County of Preston, feloniously and unlawfully did kill and slay one Eli White.”, the defendant was tried and convicted of the offense of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement in jail for a period of one year. To the judgment imposing that sentence the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

The contention of the State is that the defendant, while…