Rose v. State

Exceptions were reserved to the charge of the court and requested instructions refused. Without details, the evidence substantially is that appellant and Otto Manus, on Christmas night, were at a dance in a house of prostitution. Florence Holloway, deceased, and other prostitutes had trouble with him in the house, of which appellant was ignorant. This resulted in Florence Holloway and the other prostitutes forcefully ejecting Manus. When they pushed him out of the door appellant was in the yard nearby and handed a pistol to Manus, remarking at the time “he was with him, shoot.” The deceased…