Stipp v. State

Indictment against Stipp for the murder of Willis Hart, with a count for manslaughter. Trial, conviction of manslaughter, and sentence to ten years’ hard labor in the penitentiary.

It appears that on the night of the commission of the homicide, Joseph Russell, Willis Hart, and his son, (a young lad,) Abraham Stipp, one Spore, Hiram Phipps, and others, were at Miller's grocery, in the town of Montezuma, Parke county, Indicma; that a game of cards was played, at the close of which Russell treated the company — twenty in number — and in paying at the bar, exhibited some twenty-five dollars in…