Gentry v. State

This appeal is from a judgment sentencing appellant to a term of seven years in the state penitentiary, upon conviction of voluntary manslaughter, on an information charging murder in the second degree.

Assignments of error for review here are: (1) That the evidence was not sufficient to support the verdict and was the result of passion and prejudice, (2) That the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for a continuance, (3) That the court erred in refusing to modify the state’s instruction No. 5, at appellant’s request, and in giving appellant’s instruction No. 14 as modified.

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