Wimms v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Settle

Affirming.

The appellant, Jim Wimms, on his trial in the Fulton circuit court under an indictment charging him with the crime of murder, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary twenty-one years, complaining of which *547and the overruling of his motion for a new trial in the circuit court, he has appealed.

While additional grounds for a new trial were also filed by the appellant in the court below, the only one urged on this appeal by his counsel for the reversal of the judgment of conviction is,…