Mills v. State

Appellant was indicted for" the crime of murder in the second degree, alleged to have 'been committed by shooting one Will Barber. He was found guilty of manslaughter and given a sentence of three years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

The deceased Barber and the appellant Mills lived . near the B-ed Biver levee, and an act had been passed by the General Assembly of the State authorizing the levee directors to shoot hogs found running at large upon the levee. Dr. Barber’s hogs ran on the levee, and several of them were killed, and he suspected defendant of having killed them. Deceased…