STATEN v. STATE


232 S.W.2d 18 (1950)

STATEN v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 15, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berry C. Williams and Lawson Myers, both of Fayetteville, for plaintiff in error.

Malcolm Shull, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.


BURNETT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, with punishment fixed at confinement in the State penitentiary for not more than five years.

The evidence admitted does not sustain the conviction. The State insists though that if certain evidence which was excluded by the trial judge was admitted that then the conviction would necessarily have to be affirmed. Of course we cannot consider this evidence that was excluded below...

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