State v. Higginbotham

The defendant was indicted for murder, found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of ten years.

Defendant has appealed, and relies for reversal on several bills of exception.

[1] Defendant on the trial introduced several witnesses to sustain his plea of self-defense. The bills of exception show that counsel for the state in-his cross-examination of the defense witnesses asked questions as follows :

“Q. Do you not know as a matter of fact that your brother provoked this difficulty and continued it to the end?

“(Objected to by the defendant, on the ground that,…