Taylor v. State

Upon an indictment for murder in the First district of Chickasaw county, Lawrence Taylor was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by the court to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary, from which he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant urges no error on the facts of the case; therefore they will not be detailed.

The appellant assigns as error, first, the refusal of the trial court to order a special venire from the two judicial districts, the court having granted his request for a special venire, but limiting the same to the First district, the one in which the crime was…