State v. . Melton

Criminal action. Defendant appealed from the judgment pronounced on a conviction for manslaughter. The defendant's evidence tended to show that on Saturday night, 20 August, 1921, Walter Smith, the deceased, went to the home of W. N. Brown, whose daughter was the defendant's wife, and that early Sunday morning the deceased, the defendant, and Frank Brown, a son of W. A. Brown, were together at Dave Williams's. The deceased had been drinking freely and these three went to a place in the woods where some whiskey had been concealed and poured a quantity of it from a jug into a fruit jar. They…