State v. . Davis

Defendant was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to three years imprisonment and appealed.

On Sunday afternoon, 22 October 1916, the defendant had gone to the home of Isaac Clark for a visit, and later went to the home of Mrs. Lucy Clark near-by. At about dark the deceased Lewis Shew and two brothers and a man named Porter came down the road in the direction of Mrs. Clark's "hollering and cursing." Mrs. Clark went out and asked them to go away; defendant and Julius Clark then went out to where the boys were. Defendant gave the Shew boys some liquor, and Porter complained that he had been…