GAINES v. STATE

2 Div. 119.

288 So.2d 810 (1973)

Samuel L. GAINES v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Francis A. Poggi, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Fairhope, for appellee.


HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five (5) years.

The homicide grew out of a head-on automobile collision on Sunday afternoon, May 28, 1972, on Alabama Highway 14, about one mile west of the city limits of Eutaw, near the intersection of I-59 and I-20 in Greene County. This was a two-lane highway at the time...

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