Butler v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

Under an indictment charging murder in the first degree this appellant was found and sentenced to a term of ten years in the guilty of manslaughter in the first degree penitentiary.

The appellant and deceased were married, but had been living separate and apart for two years or more prior to the killing, the appellant living in Sylacauga, and the deceased residing at their former home, a trailer, about a mile north of Swayback bridge in Elmore County.. The evidence presented by the State tended to show that on the night of 14 August 1954 a woman was heard screaming in…