Favors v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. He claimed self-defense.

When the State had concluded its evidence in chief, appellant moved to exclude the testimony, taking the position that it had not been shown that the knife wounds inflicted by the defendant caused the death of the deceased. In this contention we cannot concur.

At the time the motion was tendered, the State had developed, without conflict in the evidence, that the fatal difficulty, the basis for the prosecution, occurred in a Railway Express…