Hollingsworth v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Dewey county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for 18 years.

The evidence is voluminous. It is enough to say that that of the state was sufficient to support a conviction. Defendant, testifying for himself, admitted the hilling, but sought to1 justify the same on the ground of self-defense.

Defendant contends first that the court erred in continuing this case from the May, 1929, term and overruling motion to…