Rivers v. State

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Defendant is convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of Prof. Caruthers, and sentenced to three years in tbe State penitentiary; and be has appealed. He assigned no errors upon tbe merits of the case; and there is no contention that be is not guilty of tbe offense *237of which he is convicted. There are two assignments of error, and only two, insisted npon, either in the assignment or in the argument at the bar.

The first is that the court erred in striking out the defendant’s plea in abatement to the indictment; and the second is that the court erred…