State v. McCausland

Ritz, Judge:

The defendant, upon the trial of an indictment charging him with murder, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Mason County of involuntary manslaughter, and prosecutes this Avrit of error to reverse that judgment, upon the grounds that the jury was permitted to make a view of the scene of the tragedy in his absence, that the court made improper remarks in the presence of the jury during the trial of the case, that improper evidence was permitted to go to the jury, and proper evidence offered by the defendant rejected, and that the jury was improperly instructed.

After the State had…