Minton v. State

Appellant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and given a sentence of one year in the penitentiary, upon his trial, under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting ánd killing one W. A. Allen.

The partisanship of the witnesses who testified in the case is very apparent, and the testimony cannot be reconciled. It abundantly sustains the verdict; indeed, appellant insists that under the testimony he should either have been found guilty of murder or should have been acquitted, and he assigns as error the action of…