Lewis v. State

The appellant was indicted by tbe grand jury of Garland County of tbe crime of murder in the first degree in the killing of. one' Tom Fielder. He' was tried, and, from a judgment of conviction for voluntary manslaughter and sentence fixing his punishment at six years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, he duly prosecutes this appeal.

1. The testimony for the State, giving it its strongest probative force in favor of the verdict, tended to prove substantially the following facts: During the month of October, 1921, John Lewis (hereafter called appellant) at about the hour of 12:30 was in…