Lee v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, and .convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial, and assigns error as to certain instructions given by the trial judge in his charge to the jury, as well as upon the judge’s refusal to charge. He complains of the admission of evidence as to dying declarations, and of the failure of the State to introduce the testimony of a certain witness. In view of the fact that the plaintiff in error was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and not of murder, some assignments of error are immaterial in…