State v. Peak

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Justice Purdy.

On January 14, 1925, the appellant, who is a white man, was charged with killing and murdering Preston Branch, a Negro! He was convicted of manslaughter, and this appeal is from the judgment pronounced upon the sentence. The testimony, both as to the acts concerning the killing and the acts, at an earlier hour of the day, which preceded the killing, is conflicting.

The appellant, with another white man, and the deceased, with Tom Brown, another- Negro, some time during that morning met together in the road. . The testimony on…