King v. State

CARR, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the court below of manslaughter in the first degree, based on an indictment charging murder in the second degree.

Admittedly, the defendant stabbed the deceased in the chest with an ice pick, from which infliction death ensued forthwith. Appellant claimed self defense.

The record proper is in all respects regular.

There are three questions presented for review. The coroner, who was also an undertaker of forty years’ experience in his profession, was permitted to state that the wound he found on the body of the deceased, in Jiis judgment, might have been…