State v. Allen

The appellant was prosecuted under an indictment charging him with the murder of Dr. James A. Rigney. The jury, found • the accused guilty of manslaughter, and the court sentenced him to confinement in the state penitentiary, at hard labor, for not less than ten, nor more than fifteen, years.

He appealed from the verdict and sentence, but he has not followed up the appeal either by an appearance in this court or by the filing of a brief in the case.

There are four bills of exception in the record. We find no merit in any of them, and, but for the fact that the indictment charges a capital…