Phillips v. State

A. S. Phillips, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of manslaughter under an indictment charging him with the murder of B. W. Silas at White Springs, Florida, on October 3, 1922, and brings error.

Phillips shot Silas with a pistol at the railroad depot in White Springs about eight o’clock at night. Several persons were at the depot waiting for the train which was late. Silas approached Phillips and called him away under pretext of having something to say to him. The two men walked a short way down the railroad track, became engaged in some heated conversation when Silas, according to the…