Cash v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

Appellant was indicted by the July term of the DeKalb County Grand Jury in 1963 and charged with unlawfully and intentionally, but without malice, killing Reuben Traffanstedt by running an automobile upon, over or against him contrary to law and against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. Appellant was tried in the DeKalb County Circuit Court on February 25, 1964, and convicted of the offense of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and sentenced to six months hard labor as punishment therefor. Hence, this appeal.

Norman Clanton, son-in-law of the deceased, testified that…