Culp v. State

Appellant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and assigns error in the overruling of his motion for new trial. After some name calling in a tavern in Plymouth, Indiana, decedent followed appellant to an adjoining area, paved with■ concrete, where a physical encounter ensued. In a few minutes the proprietor of the tavern went to the scene of the encounter and found decedent lying on the. pavement and appellant standing near. Appellant said, “I hit him but I guess I hit him a little too hard.” A passerby testified that appellant. also said, “He needed hitting and, by God, I hit him.”…