Flannigan v. State

Johnson Flannigan was tried upon an indictment charging him with the offense of murder; it being charged that he killed one Willie Jackson, by cutting him with a knife, under circumstances that made the killing murder. The accused die not deny the infliction of the wound upon the deceased with his knife, from the effects of which the deceased came to his death, but he contended that the cutting was accidental; that he and’ the deceased and another person were in a play'ful “scuffle” over the knife; that while the deceased was trying to take it away from him in the scuffle he was accidentally…