Swindle v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The indictment in this case was for murder in the first degree. On the trial the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree; thus, rendering unnecessary a consideration of any ruling of the court referable only to murder in the first or second degrees.

At the beginning of the trial and after the jury had been placed in the box, and before the statement of the case to the jury by the solicitor, Mr. Henry Mayfield, special prosecutor in the case, was followed by the wife and the five small children of the deceased into the courtroom, and in an audible voice…