Amos v. State

The defendant was tried upon 'an indictment charging the offense, of murder, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He excepts to the judgment refusing a new trial.

1-3. The rulings in the first three headnotes are sufficiently full to obviate the necessity for elaboration.

4. Hpon the evidence adduced there was one and only one distinct issue, — that of guilty or not guilty of the offense of murder, as charged in the indictment. According to the testimony for the State, the deceased, for the purpose of inducing his wife to return to his home, had gone to a house where he suspected she…