Potter v. State

Appellant was tried before a jury in the lower court, and a verdict was returned finding him “guilty of manslaughter as charged in the indictment.” Over his motion for a new trial, the court rendered judgment on the verdict, assessing his punishment at imprisonment in the Indiana Reformatory for not less than two nor more than twenty-one years, and that he be fined and disfranchised. From this judgment he appeals, and assigns, among other reasons, that the court erred in overruling his motion for a new trial.

The indictment upon which he was tried and convicted charged that William Potter on…