Killough v. State

Defendant, Andrew Jackson Killough, was charged by an information filed in the district court of Carter county with the crime of murder; was tried; convicted of manslaughter in the first degree with the punishment to the court. The court thereafter sentenced the defendant to serve a term of seven years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and he has appealed.

No question as to the sufficiency of the evidence has been raised so it is not necessary to give an extended review of the evidence. It is sufficient to relate that the state’s evidence showed that defendant shot and killed one George…