Franklin v. State

Appellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree in the Ashley Circuit Court at the October term, 1921, for killing Thomas N. Mann in said county on or about the 25th day of December, 1918. At the January, 1922, term of staid court appellant was tried upon the indictment and convicted of involuntary manslaughter, his punishment being fixed at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of one year. From the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

Omitting formal parts, the indictment is as follows: “The said B.E.L.Franklin, in the…