Manier v. State

The prisoner was indicted for the murder of ane Peter W. Neil. He was put upon his trial in the Circuit Court of Jackson county, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and adjudged to suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary for six years. To reverse the judgment on this conviction, he has appealed in error.

As the proof impresses us, it would, seem that the deceased was not slain by the prisoner, nor by any *596one else with whom the prisoner was there and then combined to kill the deceased, or to do any other unlawful act. The theory of the case, as predicated upon the proof, is, that during an…