King v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Edward De Graffenried, Judge. Tossie King was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of one W. G. Thrower, a policeman, in the city of Tuscaloosa, and he appeals. Most, of the facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Edward De Graffenried, Judge. Tossie King was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of one W. G. Thrower, a policeman, in the city of Tuscaloosa, and he appeals. Most, of the facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court. The following are the charges referred to in the opinion as refused to the defendant: (1) If you believe from the evidence in this case that the defendant did not provoke or bring on the difficulty, but approached the deceased in an orderly and peaceful manner, and the deceased angrily and insultingly advanced…
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J.
The defendant was tried and convicted under an indictment charging manslaughter in the first degree, his punishment being fixed at three years in the penitentiary. The solicitor in his closing argument to the jury made use of the following language:
“If you will give this man the punishment which he deserves, then when you pick up a newspaper and see in big headlines ‘Another Policeman Murdered,’ you will not feel that you have been, by your action in this case, in any manner responsible for the killing.”
To this statement and remark by the solicitor the defendant in open court objectéd and…
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