Brown v. State

Appellant, Clyde Brown, was indicted in the circuit court of Lauderdale county, jointly with Vernon Brown, Reon Brown, and Rufus Brown, of the murder of Joe Smith. There was a severance, and the trial of appellant resulted in a conviction of manslaughter. From that judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

On the 6th day of December, 1926, Joe Smith was found dead on a neighborhood road near where he lived with his family. He ha¡d been stabbed with a knife, shot with a gun, and his skull crushed with a blunt instrument. The evidence showed that the immediate cause of his death was the latter…