Trammell v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by killing one • Mary Mahar. Upon his trial he was found guilty of voluntary -manslaughter and given a sentence of seven years in the penitentiary, from' which is this appeal.

It is first very earnestly insisted that the testimony is not legully sufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment, and this appears tó be the assignment of error chiefly relied upon for the reversal of the judgment.

The case grows out of a tragedy which happened 'at the Grotto Club swimming pool about thirty miles from Fort Smith. A…