Lumpkin v. State

The defendant, appellant, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.

The defendant had made a contract by the terms of which he was to live ¿t the home of the deceased (Vann) during the year 1922,. as a member‘of his family, working the crops with him, and to receive one-sixth of the products grown upon the farm. On Sunday previous to the killing on Monday, April 10th, defendant used the horse of the deceased. Defendant came home after dark, and deceased complained to him about keeping- his horse out so late.

The state’s evidence tended to show that after supper defendant and deceased…