Case Name: Shanks v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1926-11-22
Citations: 145 Miss. 328
Docket Number: No. 25538
Parties: Shanks v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 145
Pages: 328–330

Head Matter:
Shanks v. State.
(Division B.
Nov. 22, 1926.
Suggestion of Error Overruled Jan. 3, 1927.)
[110 So. 666.
No. 25538.]
James T. Crawley, for appellant.
J. A. Lauderdale, Special Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
Argued orally by Jas. T. Crawley, for appellant, and J. A. Lauderdale, Assistant Attorney-General, for the state.
Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 17CJ, p. 264, n. 89; Homicide, 30CJ, p. 333, n. 45.

Opinion:
HoldeN, P. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
John Shanks appeals from a conviction of manslaughter and a sentence for a term of ten years in the penitentiary.
The appellant shot and killed his wife, and contended at the trial that the shooting was accidental. The testi mony offered by Mm sustained tMs theory, but the physical facts and circumstances, as well as the dying declaration of the deceased, tended to show that the shooting' was not accidental, but was intentionally done. This conflict in the testimony presented a question of fact for the decision of the jury, and their verdict of guilt is amply supported by the evidence in the case; consequently, we see no reason for a reversal on that ground.
The other reasons urged for reversal by the appellant have been carefully considered by us, and we see no merit in any of them. Therefore the judgment of the lower court is affirmed.
Affirmed.