NEVEILS v. STATE

No. D-168.

145 So.2d 883 (1962)

James Willard NEVEILS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

October 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne E. Ripley, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


McLANE, Associate Judge.

The appellant (defendant) was tried upon an indictment charging second degree murder of his wife and convicted of manslaughter, from which he appeals.

The appellant and his wife had been married for a number of years, his wife being a chronic alcoholic who also suffered from asthma. She frequently disappeared from home and remained away for several days usually on a drunken escapade. Not infrequently the defendant himself joined his...

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