Casteel v. State

The appellant was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal to reverse said judgment.

The appellant urges, first, that the court erred in failing to direct a verdict for appellant; second, that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction.

If the evidence was sufficient to sustain the verdict there was, of course, no error in refusing to-direct a verdict. Graham and Seaman v. State, 197 Ark. 50, 121 S. W. 2d 892.

J. W. Dillon testified that he kneiv Taylor and the appellant; that he came in from Piggott…