Hale v. State

Appellant was tried upon an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. The jury’s verdict found him guilty of manslaughter. From the judgment of conviction and sentence rendered thereon and order denying his motion for new trial, appellant takes this appeal.

The sole point raised by appellant is whether the trial court committed reversible error in excluding the testimony of a Navy shore patrolman that the deceased made a threat, not communicated to appellant, upon the appellant’s life. At trial, appellant defended upon the theory that he acted in self-defense when his shotgun…