Sims v. State

The appellant, Ernest Sims, was indicted, tried, and convicted for the crime of manslaughter in the circuit court of Warren county, and sentenced to serve a term of three years in the State Penitentiary. Prom this conviction and sentence imposed he prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment was drawn under section 1023, Hemingway’s Code 1927 (section 1244, Code of 1906), which is as follows:

“Every other killing* of a human being, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, and without authority of law, not provided' for in this chapter, shall be manslaughter.”

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