State v. Phillips

Layton, C. J.,

charging the jury:

John M. Phillips, the accused, is charged in the indictment before you with the crime of manslaughter arising out of the death of one Grover Brown Billings on June 16, 1936, at a place called Ruth’s place near Harrington in this county.

The State contends that in the early morning of June 16, last, the accused, Billings and others were engaged in playing stud poker at Ruth’s place, and that an argument arose between the two which resulted in Billings, who had charge of game, telling the accused to go away and stay away; that the accused went into the kitchen of…