MACON v. STATE

7 Div. 159.

63 So.2d 32 (1953)

MACON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

January 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Huel M. Love, Talladega, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., J. W. Arbuthnot, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Marvin Cherner, Birmingham, of counsel, for the State.


PRICE, Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree, the defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at four years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The evidence is without dispute that appellant killed his wife, Betty Macon, by shooting her with a shotgun.

Defendant contended he had cleaned his gun and in reloading it the gun fired, accidentally killing his wife.

The State's testimony...

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