Thompson v. State

The defendant was indicted for the murder of William Riley. The jury returned a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, and the defendant prosecutes this writ of error complaining of the overruling of his motion for new trial.

Complaint is made that the court erred in refusing a request to give in charge to the jury the following: “If you believe from the evidence that the defendant, Thompson, did not know of his wife’s guilt, but only suspected it, and endeavored in good faith to ascertain whether or not his suspicions were well founded, and he caught his wife and the deceased, Will Riley, in the…