Rutland v. State

G. Q. Eutland was indicted in Wilcox superior court for the homicide of Cecil Faircloth. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and in his bill of exceptions assigns error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

The killing occurred about 7 :30 o’clock at night on Saturday, March 13, 1933. The evidence discloses that Eutland and Fair-cloth were next-door neighbors in the little town of Seville in Wilcox county. Eutland operated a store in the town and Faircloth was a customer of his and traded with Eutland on the day of the homicide, and had Eutland to cash a little order that he…