Giles v. State

Defendant appeals from conviction of voluntary manslaughter and sentence to a maximum term of two years in tire penitentiary for the offense.

Defendant is a simple, uneducated man, a tenant farmer who killed his landlord, R. L. McTeer, as a result of a quarrel over the division of a crop of hay. . The present record presents the second trial of the case and the defendant is the only eyewitness who testifies to the details of the homicide. The credibility of the defendant is, therefore, the vital factor which establishes guilt or innocence.

Immediately after the homicide, the defendant was…