Cox v. State

Cox was indicted for the murder of I. T. Sealy, • the jury returned a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, the defend*239ant’s motion for a new trial was-overruled, and he excepted. The exceptions taken to the charge of the court, and the other grounds of the motion, and the rulings thereon as shown by the headnotes, need no elaboration, except, perhaps, the grounds referred to in the 1st, 4th, and 6th headnotes .of this decision.

The evidence showed that the killing occurred on December 14, 1916; that the deceased, I. T. Sealy, was a tenant of the defendant,' had become dissatisfied, and had made…