Edwards v. State

The plaintiff in error, Warner H. Edwards-, here designated the defendant, was on April 22, 1921, by verdict of a jury found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of four years. From the judgment on the verdict he appeals.

The facts disclosed by the state’s evidence are that Bailey Bacon and Ed Hampton, the deceased, were hauling sand through a field belonging to A. J. Edwards, the father of the defendant, on the morning of the day on which the tragedy occurred; that they were driving across some rows of corn…