Morrell v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, under an indictment charging murder in the second degree.

The evidence shows without dispute that on Saturday night, July S, 1947, appellant and deceased and several others were at a home in the rural section of DeKalb County, where it was thought that a dance might take place. The evidence is also without dispute that appellant and deceased had been drinking, as had other members of their group, and that a fight occurred between the appellant and the deceased.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show…