Glover v. State

Appellant, charged by information with having committed murder in the first degree by striking and beating E. A. Sides with a bottle, was by a trial jury found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for seven years. From a judgment imposing sentence in accordance with the verdict he has appealed.

For reversal it is first urged by appellant that the evidence was insufficient to establish that Sides died as a result of a blow inflicted by appellant.

The evidence tended to show that a group of negroes were gambling with dice on a sandbar or…