Appellant, Pat Deaton, was tried in the Pike Circuit Court on the charge of murder. He was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at 8 years in the penitentiary.
He first raises a jurisdictional question. He further insists that he was entitled to have his motion in arrest of judgment sustained; that the verdict of the jury is flagrantly against the evidence; and that the...
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