BURNETT, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, with the maximum punishment fixed by the jury at five years confinement in the State prison, from which judgment he appeals.
The assignments of error present two propositions; first, that the evidence preponderates against the verdict and in favor of the accused that he committed the homicide in his own necessary self-defense.
Under this assignment the plaintiff in error...
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