Colvin v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

James Ludwig Colvin and Luther Jerome Veazey were students enrolled in the University of Alabama. Each man had seen military service in World War II, Colvin in the Marine Corps, and Veazey in the Navy.

For several weeks they had shared an apartment, and until the occurrence about which this case centers the men had apparently been close friends.

On Easter Sunday, 1951 Colvin shot Veazey to death on a street in Tuscaloosa. Colvin was thereafter indicted for murder in the first degree.

Trial on the indictment resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, the jury…