Burton v. State

Appellant was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and given a sentence of four years in the penitentiary upon his trial under an information charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by shooting one Newt Chandler. The shooting was admitted and self-defense was pleaded.

The testimony was voluminous and sharply conflicting in many essential respects, but that offered by the state is sufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury, indeed, it would sustain a higher sentence. It is to the following effect. An automobile driven by appellant collided…