Stovall v. State

Besides the general ground that the verdict is contrary to law and without evidence to support it, the motion for new trial shows that exceptions were taken to the ruling of the court in refusing to continue the case, and in admitting in evidence a certain letter purporting to have been written by the accused before the homicide, and which was addressed to C. E. West, brothdr of the deceased; and because the court erred in failing to charge the jury the law applicable to involuntary manslaughter.

1. The motion for continuance was based on two grounds: 1st. That the accused had been confined in…