Davis v. State

We will deal with the general grounds first. Able and diligent counsel for the defendant makes this statement in his brief: “Upon the trial, the evidence offered by the State was probably sufficient to support the verdict of manslaughter, but, according to the statement of the defendant and his witnesses, he made out a case of justifiable homicide.” Conceding this statement to be well founded under the whole record the jury did not see fit to accept the statement of the defendant and his witnesses that the defendant was justified in the homicide. So that leaves the case, so far as the general…