Williams v. State

Taylor, J.:

Frank Williams, the plaintiff in error, was indicted, tried and convicted at the Spring term, 1894, of the Circuit Court for Leon county, under the provisions of Section 2886 of the Revised Statutes of the crime of ■manslaughter involved in the wilful killing of an unborn quick-child by injury to the mother thereof, and seeks reversal here of such conviction and sentence by writ of error.

The only error assigned is the overruling of his motion for new trial. The grounds of the motion for new trial were: 1st. That the verdict was contrary to law. 2nd. The verdict is contrary to the…