Holt v. State

Plaintiffs in error appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, with a prison sentence of two years, in the killing of Jess Anderson by stabbing with a pocketknife. The Holts are - cousins, young men of 23 and 24 years, respectively. Elvin Holt says that it was he who used the knife, and there is no doubt on the record that this is so; and we find no evidence that Hoyte Holt was armed at all, or engaged in the fight, although he was present. The only apparent theory upon which his conviction could be rested is that the knife used was his and that, shortly before, he handed it to…