Ivey v. State

Henry Ivey was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, under an indictment charging him with murdering Willie B. Bowen by shooting him with a pistol on January 12, 1930, in Macon county, G-a. The defendant excepts to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial.

The general complexion of the case is this: On January 12, 1930, Henry Ivey, Willie Bowen, and several other negroes were engaged in a game of “skin.” The house in’which they were playing was small and was lighted by a single lamp. The night was dark, and the hour was shortly after midnight. Ivey and Bowen made a bet, the latter…