Jenkins v. State

John Jenkins was convicted of murder for the unlawful and malicious killing of Pearl Butler by shooting him with a shotgun. The defendant’s motion for a new trial, which was overruled, was based upon the usual general grounds, that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, and without evidence to support it; and on one ground of amendment, complaining that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury as to the law of voluntary manslaughter. The State introduced a number of witnesses whose testimony, if credible, clearly showed that the accused assassinated the deceased. The accused…