Rhine v. State

Lee Rhine prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for manslaughter upon the verdict of the jury fixing his punishment at three years in the State penitentiary.

Henry Walker, sheriff of Washington County, Arkansas, was the first witness for' the State. According to his testimony, on the 24th day of December, 1930, he was informed that Bill Brundidge had been killed in a wood pasture on the farm of Adam Rhine in Washington County, Arkansas. He first went to the house of Adam Rhine, and two of Rhine’s little boys went with him to the wood pasture to show him where…