People v. Faison

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter1 2and sentenced to a prison term of 7-1/2 to 15 years. He has appealed.

At trial the prosecution produced evidence to prove that on January 15, 1965, defendant had stabbed the deceased, Jimmy Lee Cowley, in the neck during an argument over the latter’s request to borrow money from defendant for a game of dice in which they and others were engaged. No witness was able to testify that he actually saw the defendant strike the deceased with a knife. There ■was, however, testimony of a fight between the deceased and defendant, the observation of…