Legal Opinion

McMillon v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided September 24, 1954No. 1 Div. 684PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree, the defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 9 years.

The evidence is undisputed that defendant shot her husband with a pistol on the 20th day of April, 1953, while he was standing in the front yard of their home. Deceased was taken to Mobile City Hospital the day he was shot and remained there until the latter part of June. He was readmitted a week or so later and died in tb* hospital on July 7, .1953.

Dr. E. B. Wert, a pathologist at the Hospital, did a…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
  2. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
  3. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  4. Garrett v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1950
  5. Jacobs v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1940

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Tate v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1976
  2. Hopson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1982
  3. Crawford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978

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