Moran v. State

Moran was indicted for murder and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. There were eighteen grounds of the motion for a new trial, but in view of the brief for the plaintiff in error, he is to be treated as abandoning all the assignments except *847that complaining of the court’s refusal to admit evidence that the stick in the hands of the deceased at the time of the killing was a weapon likely to produce death,'-and those grounds of the motion which assign as error that the court charged on the subject of voluntary manslaughter. It does not appear what the witness would have testified in…