SHANGLER, Judge.
The defendant appeals from a conviction of manslaughter and a sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten years.
The defendant and one Henry Piggie, Jr. had joined a number of others in a game of dice. As the afternoon progressed, they drank and quarreled, and after Piggie passed out from an excess of consumption, the defendant struck him on the head with a metal stool and caused his death.
At the beginning of the trial, the prosecutor...
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