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The defendant was convicted of manslaughter on an information charging him with the murder of Ascension Ramirez. The defendant admitted the killing, but claimed that Ramirez came to his house, insulted and threatened him, and then threw a beer bottle at him, and attempted to assault him with an iron of some description in his hand, and that he shot him in self-defense.

We find no sufficient ground for disturbing the verdict of the jury. The defendant was found guilty of manslaughter. That he shot and killed Ascension Ramirez is not disputed. The only question as to the justness of the verdict arises under the plea of self-defense. The facts testified to on behalf of the defendant, if true, would justify the homicide. The jury evidently did not accept the evidence as true.

According to the testimony on behalf of the people, neither the defendant nor his relatives and friends, who witnessed the shooting, in giving an account of what took place to the officer and those accompanying him on their visit to the place of the tragedy soon after it occurred, while they told of the insulting remarks and threats of Ramirez, made any reference to any attempt on his part to attack defendant…