Davis v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant was indicted for the first degree murder of William F. Knight.

His trial resulted in a verdict and judgment of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, his punishment being fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years; hence this appeal.

In the trial below the evidence presented by the defense was directed toward showing self defense.

Since errors in the court’s oral charge to the jury necessitate a reversal of this judgment, we see no useful purpose in setting forth the evidence.

We excerpt the following statements from the court’s…