Roberts v. State

The Plaintiff in Error -was indicted for murder in the second degree. He was charged with the killing of William Nichols on the 18th of November, 1923, in Lévy County. He went to trial in April, 1925, on a pléa of not guilty and was convicted of manslaughter. To that judgment he took a Writ of Error.

• It is contended in his behalf that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and that the Court erred in sustaining the State’s objection to a question propounded to the defendant Roberts, when he was testifying ás a witness in his own behalf, as to his belief concerning the danger to…