State v. Rouse

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Beease.

The appellant, Joe Rouse, indicted for the murder of John Hankinson, was tried in the Court of General Sessions for Aiken County by his Honor, Circuit Judge E. C. Dennis, and a jury, and was convicted of manslaughter.

The appellant asks that the judgment and sentence below be reversed, and to that end he has two exceptions.

One of the witnesses called to testify on the part State, in developing its case in chief, was James Blackman. It appears that the testimony of the witness was not as the prosecuting attorneys expected it to be.…