Carter v. State

This case comes from the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi, where the appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of his wife, Afton B. Carter, but was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.

The record discloses that on March 22, 1973, police officers of the City of Tupelo, Mississippi, were called to appellant's residence where they found him sitting in the front yard holding his intestines which were protruding from a wound in his left side at about the beltline.

Upon an…