House v. State

The indictment in this case charges that on July 22, 1931, in Elbert county, Ga., E. M. House did make an assault upon P. C. Johnson, and did kill the said Johnson by shooting him with a pistol, and that the killing was murder. The jury found the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixed his punishment at from one to two years in the penitentiary. The trial judge overruled the defendant’s motion for a neAv trial, and the movant excepted.

Sandy Thurman testified, in substance, that on July 22, 1931, he came to Elberton Avith P. C. Johnson and a Mr. Anderson in Tom Walters’s…