McPherson v. State

The appellant was indicted at the March term, 1872, of the circuit court of Benton county for the murder of Ephraim M. Thomason. The venue was changed, upon his application, to Washington county, in the circuit court of which county, at the September term, 1872, he was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, and his term of imprisonment in the penitentiary fixed by the jury at threp years. He applied for a new trial, and also moved in arrest, of judgment; and both motions being overruled, he prayed and obtained an appeal to this court.

The grounds alleged in the motion for a new trial were:

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