State v. Gordon

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

From sentence, upon conviction of manslaughter, the defendant appeals.

The defendant, Clarence Gordon, and the deceased, Will Colliers, were employees on the farm of Elias McGee, under and subject to the direction of Allen Emerson, the general'foreman. There was evidence tending to establish that on the morning of the homicide Emerson, the foreman, sent the defendant and four or five other hands, of whom the deceased, Colliers, was one, to do certain wood cutting on the McGee farm; that this work was in charge of the defendant as…