DUNNAWAY v. STATE

7 Div. 144.

56 So.2d 356 (1951)

DUNNAWAY v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wales W. Wallace, Jr., Columbiana, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and Thos. M. Galloway, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The evidence is without dispute or conflict that James Allen died shortly after a personal encounter with defendant and that the cause of his death was a wound in the side caused by a roofing knife. The coroner's testimony as to the wounds on the body of deceased is as follows:

"There were...

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