Davis v. State

The appellant, Dock Davis, was indicted, arraigned, tried, and convicted of manslaughter, on an indictment for murder, by the circuit court of Bankin county, Miss., and by the court sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary, from which conviction and sentence imposed he prosecutes an appeal here.

The appellant shot and killed Jim Torrence, his brother-in-law, at the home of the father-in-law of the deceased, appellant’s father, on the 3d day of August, 1927. On that day, appellant drove up in a car to the home of his father, called him out and had a conversation with him…