SMITH, Presiding Justice for the Court:
Lewis Carter was tried in the Circuit Court of Covington County upon a charge of having murdered one Tommy Maxwell. The trial resulted in his conviction of manslaughter, for which offense he was sentenced to serve twenty years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. He has appealed from that conviction and is at liberty under $20,000 bail.
The homicide, which gave rise to the prosecution, occurred during a fight which...
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