Garvin v. State

J. G. Garvin, Aubrey Sikes, T. L. Martin, and others were indicted for murdering Dennis Hubert by shooting him with a pistol. Garvin was tried separately and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His exception is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial.

While the brief of evidence is not identical with that in the case of Sikes y. State, ante, 7-16, it does involve precisely the same transaction and the same contention, so far as the general grounds of the motion for a new trial are concerned. It might also be observed that this court affirmed the judgment in the kindred case of…