Thornton v. State

Appellant, a white man, was indicted and tried for the murder of Otis "White, a negro, and was convicted of manslaughter. The first assignment of error is that the court should have granted appellant’s request for a directed verdict of not guilty. The argument of appellant in support of this assignment is that there were only two eyewitnesses to the homicide, and that hoth these witnesses, without material conflict, by their evidence made out a case of self-defense. •

It is true, of' course, that, where the testimony of the eyewitnesses is not in conflict, and is entirely reasonable, and is…