Brown v. State

1. The defendant was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The deceased was the marshal of a small town in Washington county. ■ He had arrested a negro on some charge and wts trying to get from the negro a gun which the latter had had during the afternoon. The negro told him that it was at his -(the negro’s) home. The deceased and a man named Wells and the negro went to a small house which seems to have *384been occupied by the defendant’s daughter. Wells held the negro on the outside while the deceased opened a window and entered the house. Upon entering the house by…