Roberson v. State

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals.

If it could be said that the trial court erred in its ruling in not permitting the witness Jake Gholston to state that one Sandy Malone saw certain fruit jars of whisky at the place where the killing took place, this if error, was cured by the testimony of Malone himself, who afterwards testified as to his seeing at this place these fruit jars of whisky. The testimony shows the defendant to bé a white man, and the deceased to have been a negro man. The record states that—

“During the argument the defendant’s…