State v. Hunter

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Woods.

The defendants, Joe Hunter and John Hunter, appeal from a conviction and sentence for manslaughter under an indictment charging them with the murder of Lewis Edwards. ' The killing was one of the many fatalities incident to the social function known as a negro hot supper. Though the evidence is conflicting, it seems probable that Charlie Hunter fired the fatal shot; and this fact made a correct statement of the law to the jury as to what would constitute guilty participation in crime very important to the appellants.

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