Gunter v. State

R. J. Gunter was charged with murder, and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

It appears from the evidence that the deceased, J. O. Evans, was the defendant’s son-in-law, and was living with his wife (defendant’s daughter) at the defendant’s house at the time the defendant killed him. About two o’clock in the afternoon of the day of the homicide, Evans returned to the defendant’s house in the company of Hobson Vickery. Soon thereafter the defendant came out of the house, complaining of some one cursing where Evans and Vickery were.…