Wesson v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The petition for’ writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals was granted to consider one question which merited -treatment.

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree on a murder indictment, charging in Count 1 that the deceased’s death was caused by the defendant beating him with his fists and stomping him with his feet, and in Count 2 by inflict ing blows upon the person of the deceased with defendant’s fists and feet, which injuries allegedly resulted in death. It is to be noted that each of the counts of the indictment charge that death resulted…