Velvin v. State

This is an appeal- from a judgment convicting Arthur Velvin of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, and sentencing him to seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary for killing W. G. Smith by shooting him with a 'gun. ' 'Smith-' attached a crop of a negro tenant in which a brother of'Velvin,who had been recently killed in Texas, had some interest. The defendant, Arthur Velvin, went to the home of Smith, as he says, to settle the matter in some way. The evidence shows that there was some ill feeling between the two parties, and Velvin took with him a Winchester repeating shotgun loaded with…