State v. Laura

MlLLBR, PRESIDENT :

Upon an indictment for the murder of one Hall, the defendant was found not guilty of murder as charged in the indictment, but guilty of voluntary manslaughter, upon which verdict he was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary.

From this judgment we awarded the defendant this writ of error; and the errors relied on we are now to consider.

The first of these is that the trial court erroneously excluded from the jury the testimony of Draga Grubath. To show; its relation to the issues involved, we will state briefly the facts attending the homicide. On the night of and…