Minter v. State

J. W. Minter was convicted of the murder of Millard Trouton; and there being no recommendation made by the jury returning the verdict of guilty, he was sentenced to be hanged. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled,' and he excepted.

1. In several grounds of the motion for new trial exception is taken to the failure of the court to charge the jury upon the subject of voluntary manslaughter. The State introduced evidence to prove confessions made by the accused; The plaintiff in *138error insists that parts of these alleged confessions contained statements which, if true, reduced the…