Harris v. State

The Calhoun County grand jury indicted appellant for murder of Marvin McKinney. The petit jury convicted him of manslaughter, for which the trial court sentenced him to serve a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary. He appealed.

Appellant is a Negro, and the man he is accused of slaying was a Negro.

Seven errors are assigned: (1) refusal of a peremptory instruction; (2) permitting the witness, Lillian Lewis, to give in evidence certain things appellant’s wife said to her; (3) allowing the district attorney to cross-examine appellant in jury’s presence as to other crimes; (4) over ruling…