Hicks v. State

Only headnote 6 will be discussed. Melvin Hicks and Johnnie Walker were jointly indicted for the murder of John Sisson by shooting him with a shotgun, “thereby inflicting a certain mortal wound and fcertain mortal wounds from which he, the said John Sisson, then and there died.” Hicks was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

The defendant, Walker, and Sisson were all employed at a sawmill in north Georgia, Walker having, two weeks before the occasion in question, come down from Tennessee to work. It appears from the testimony that one…