Jones v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the first degree, which charge was impliedly included in an indictment for murder in the first degree. In accordance with the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Briefs on this appeal from the judgment of conviction and sentence present one question only: Whether the trial court committed reversible error in overruling objections of defendant to testimony of a witness as to two statements made by the victim of the alleged homicide, which…