EDDY v. STATE

6 Div. 585.

352 So.2d 1161 (1977)

Ruth Nell EDDY v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

December 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Tweedy, Jr., Jasper, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and C. Lawson Little, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried on an indictment charging murder in the second degree of D. C. Rusk. A jury found her guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and fixed her punishment at five years imprisonment. She was sentenced accordingly.

The deceased was killed by one bullet, from a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun, that penetrated his left chest and was lodged in the front of his spine. Defendant was the only eyewitness...

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