Robinson v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was tried, convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary for the crime of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, and by writ of error brings this judgment here for review.

At the trial after the witnesses for the State and' the defense had been put under the rule excluding them from the court room, until individually called to testify, the defendant’s counsel moved the court to exempt one of his witnesses from the rule, and that such witness, who had been the foreman of the coroner’s jury…