Champion v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for manslaughter in the first degree. His jury trial resulted in a verdict guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that appellant was a police officer for the City of 'Clanton at the time of this homicide.

The deceased, a soldier stationed at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama, and his first cousin J. W. Bradley, and Bradley’s brother-in-law, Marlin Ingram, had met together in Clanton on Sunday, February 17, 1947. They rode around in a taxi awhile, and then just walked around.” Marlin had been drinking,…