State v. Stockton

McGinnis, Judge:

Defendant obtained a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Boone County, wherein he was' sentenced to one year imprisonment upon the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. We will make no comments upon the evidence further than is necessary to disclose the errors assigned.

It appears that on the 12th day of August, 1922, there was a disturbance of the peace at the town of Yalco in said county, and that the justice of the peace who maintained an office in said town and lived a short distance therefrom was informed of the disturbance. He…