Cox v. State

This appeal is from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter. The defense is that a third person did the killing. The assignments of error challenge (1) the' preponderance of the evidence, and (2) the exclusion of testimony of an admission by a third person that he shot the deceased.

The killing occurred in a place run for negroes' as a restaurant and dance hall. A crowd had congregated there. Deceased being involved in a war of words with a negro woman, plaintiff in error entered into the dispute, drew his pistol from beneath the counter, held it on and searched deceased, and hit him on the…