Franklin v. State

Mu. Justice Chambliss

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbis is an appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, with a prison sentence' of ten years. Franklin killed Hurley Proctor, another negro, with a knife. Tbe conviction is sustained by tbe State’s evidence and on tbe testimony of Franklin himself be is clearly guilty of manslaughter. These parties got into an altercation in a roadhouse. They abused each other, exchanging epithets. Both were more or less intoxicated, tbe deceased perhaps more so than bis companion. About 3 A. M. they went out of the building, both having knives in…