State v. Maines

ODOM, Justice.

Defendant was indicted for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to hard labor in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than five not more than fifteen years. He appealed from the verdict and judgment and presents for our consideration four bills of exception taken during the progress of the trial,

Bill No. 1 involves the question whether the trial judge erred in refusing to permit the coroner to answer the following question propounded by counsel for the defendant:

“Considering your experience in such matters and your observations on the. occasion in question,…