State v. Jones

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Stabler.

On September 26, 1935, the defendant, Jasper Jones, was tried in the Court of General Sessions for Marlboro County upon an indictment charging him with the murder of one G. W. Cole. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of eight years.

The homicide occurred on August 17, 1935, at the defendant’s home in the Town of McColl. It appears that Jones was a policyholder in the Virginia Life Insurance Company ; and. that Cole represented this company as an assistant dis trict manager, whose duties…