CLAYTON v. STATE

7 Div. 120.

54 So.2d 719 (1951)

CLAYTON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beddow & Jones and Robt. W. Gwin, all of Birmingham, and Hugh Reed, Jr., Centre, for appellant.

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


CARR, Presiding Judge.

In the lower court the accused was indicted for murder in the first degree and convicted of the lesser offense of manslaughter in the first degree.

The indictment alleges that he killed William Thomas Compton, alias B. T. Compton, by shooting him with a gun or pistol.

In many aspects the evidence is not in substantial dispute.

On the day in question the appellant came to Centre, Alabama at about nine o'clock A.M. He was...

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