Jones v. State

On Sunday morning, June 13, 1943, John A. Hayes and a group of other men, among whom were some of the defendant’s sons, were gathered iñ a room in the defendant’s home drinking beer from a barrel and listening to some of the group play or pick a guitar. Yiewing the evidence in the most favorable light to uphold the verdict of voluntary manslaughter, the jury were authorized to find from one phase of the evidence that one Jessie Bedditt and a brother of Hayes began a tussle that soon developed into a fight; that .Hayes pulled Bedditt off of his brother; that at this time the defendant came…