Horton v. State

Lewis, J. J.

L. Horton was placed on trial in Sumter superior court, under an indictment charging him with the murder of Thomas Bivins, alleged to have been committed on June 24, 1899. The accused was convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter; whereupon he filed his motion for a new trial, and he excepts to the judgment of the court below overruling this motion.

1. One ground in the motion for a new trial is, that the court erred in admitting the evidence of a State’s witness, over objection of defendant’s counsel, in reference to a disturbance between defendant and deceased, some six…