MILLIKEN, Judge.
The appellant, Chester Barnes, an unmarried man in his fifties, was indicted for murder and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter — the killing of his brother, Roy Barnes, with a pistol shot. He was sentenced to serve twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
Chester and Roy had been on a rather extensive alcoholic binge before the killing which occurred about two o'clock in the morning, just a short time after Chester had awakened a...
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