State v. Sandiford

Appellant was prosecuted for the murder of one F. L. Sheppard, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The record contains a number of bills ot exception, several of which were reserven *937to rulings of the district judge refusing to allow defendant to introduce evidence of previous threats on the part of Sheppard to kill defendant. In offering the evidence, defendant’s counsel announced that the main purpose was to corroborate the testimony-given by defendant; that is, to prove that Sheppard had made a hostile demonstration as if to take…