Higgs v. State

The defendant was charged with murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Counsel for the plaintiff in error, in their brief and. in their oral argument before this court, admitted that the verdict was authorized by the evidence, and they also expressly abandoned every special assignment of error save that embraced in the 3d ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial. That ground is as follows: “ Because the *629court erred in admitting, over the objection of defendant’s counsel, the testimony of the witness C. W. Williams as to the good character of the deceased, the witness,…