Woodard v. State

Appellant was tried upon an information charging him with having shot and killed one Calvin Broadnax. He was found guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

Appellant says in his brief that: “This appeal involves only one question and that is whether the State proved the corpus delicti. In other words it is the contention of the appellant that there is no proof in the record to establish the fact that the deceased died as a result of the shot fired by him.”

Appellant and deceased were next door neighbors. Their wives…