State v. Barrett

The defendant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter, for shooting and killing one Williams in a' saloon conducted by himself and one Levison, and brings this appeal to reverse the judgment. The following statement of the facts will suffice to explain the alleged errors : On the morning of the homicide, in response to *195a summons by telephone, Captain Stapleton, of the police force accompanied by an officer, went to the saloon indicated, and there found the defendant, who told Stapleton that he had shot a man, and that his body was then in a back room of the saloon. Stapleton, accompanied…