Butler v. State

The appellant has been three times convicted on an indictment charging him with murder, and this is the third appearance of the case in this court. 163 So. 390; 177 Miss. 91, 170 So. 148. The conviction here appealed from is for manslaughter.

The appellant’s complaints are: (1) The evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; (2) the court wrongfully admitted testimony to be hereinafter set forth.

The first of these contentions may be summarily disposed of; for, leaving on one side the fact that three juries have said that the evidence supports a conviction, the evidence in this record…