Tennessee Supreme Court April 15, 1879 (Stewart v. State)

Freeman, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error was indicted for killing Lucy Lutton in the city of Memphis, by shooting her with a pistol; a verdict of guilty of manslaughter was rendered by the jury, and two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary fixed as his punishment; from which verdict and the judgment of the court thereon, an appeal in error brings the case to this