Holmes v. State

The appellant, William Holmes; was indicted and tried in the circuit 'court of Holmes county on a charge of murder, and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to *616the state penitentiary for a term of two years, and from this conviction and sentence, he prosecuted this appeal.

The testimony for the state consisted solely of proof of the fact that appellant struck a schoolmate, Elbert Garland, with a stick, inflicting a wound on the head from which Garland afterwards died, and that immediately after striking the blow appellant ran towards his home. The evidence is undisputed that, at the…