State v. . Cox

Tbe prisoner, Ed Cox, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the State’s prison for a term of five years. From tbis judgment be appeals. Tbe evidence fills nearly 100 printed pages. Graphically, but not unfairly, the Attorney-General sets out in bis brief wbat occurred, as follows: “It was on the ball ground that Mack Cox unfurled the flag of bis clan. He flung the epithet fSon of a_,’ into the teetb of Reece Hucks; but the Huckses, tbougb doughty, are not ready warriors, and they refused to be goaded into battle. It was Charles Oox, father and patriarch of the clan that started the…