State v. Davis

The defendant was tried for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and, from a sentence to hard labor in the penitentiary, takes this appeal.

Five hills of exceptión are relied on as presenting reversible error in the rulings of the trial court.

Bill 1.

The state, in the beginning of the trial, offered in evidence the procSs verbal of the coroner’s inquest to prove the cause of the death of the party the defendant was accused of killing.

Several objections were made to the introduction of the inquest, but only one is urged before this court, and that is that the court failed to specially charge the…