DENTON v. STATE

4 Div. 78.

40 So.2d 105 (1949)

DENTON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

April 19, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Brown, of Ozark, for appellant.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and MacDonald Gallion, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CARR, Judge.

The accused was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree on an indictment which charged murder in the first degree.

Without dispute in the evidence the deceased received a fatal pistol-shot wound. The appellant claimed that the fatality was due to an accident. A brother of the deceased testified to a state of facts which tended to show that the defendant intentionally fired the gun.

It is very clear that the State's evidence was...

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