State v. Jackett

*169The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

W. E. Jackett appeals from a conviction of manslaughter in the fourth degree. The state’s evidence tended to show these facts: On the night of October 31, at about one o’clock, a party of thirteen boys, and young men, of ages varying from seventeen to twenty-three years, while engaged in a number of lesser depredations, for a period of three or four minutes stoned a small wooden house occupied by Jackett. as a restaurant and also as his home, throwing against the sides and roof stones described as varying in size from that of a hen’s egg…