COOPER v. STATE

8 Div. 884.

157 So.2d 125 (1963)

John COOPER v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

October 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Slate, Decatur, for appellant.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and Paul T. Gish, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Judge.

Cooper was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree with his punishment fixed at six years in the penitentiary. The court overruled his motion for new trial, hence this appeal.

The evidence is without conflict that Cooper shot the deceased, Robert Draper, near Draper's home December 9, 1961.

The State's evidence tended to show that Cooper tried to collect Five Dollars from Draper and the shot which killed Draper was fired during...

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