REED v. STATE

8 Div. 808.

138 So.2d 272 (1962)

Herbert REED v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

February 13, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Slate, Decatur, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Tommy R. Ogletree, Montgomery, Legal Research Aide, for the State.


CATES, Judge.

Reed was indicted under six counts of murder in the second degree charging him with killing Albert Pickett by various means. The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter under a general verdict and fixed his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.

In a card game at Reed's home, Pickett had fallen in arrears. He told Reed, "The only way you can get it is to go to my mother to get the money." Thereupon, as though by way of rejoinder...

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