Johnson v. State

The plaintiff in error, for convenience hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was by information charged with the crime of murder; tried and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of four years.

Lucy Buck, a witness for the state, testified in substance as follows:

“I am the wife of Marchie Buck, the deceased, and am the sister of the defendant; on the 2d day of December, 1933, I had taken my three children and gone to the home of the defendant; deceased came over there about nine o’clock that night; all the people…