State v. Jones

Mr. Special Justice Robert S. Clement

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the Defendant or by name, was indicted for murder in the first degree for the killing of Dorothy Ballard. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to not less than two (2) nor more than three (3) years in the penitentiary. The deceased Avas formerly married to the Defendant, but they were divorced, and the deceased married one Ballard, a nephew of the Defendant, who was a boarder in the Jones’ home prior to the divorce of. the deceased and the Defendant.…