Trimble v. State

CATES, Judge.

The grand jury of Etowah County indicted Trimble for the first degree murder of George Augustus (“Shankie”) Lee by shooting him to death with a shotgun. This appeal is from a judgment of guilt of voluntary manslaughter carrying five years’ imprisonment.

The tendencies of the State’s case were:

January 11, 1956, Mr. J. F. Bankson, a Gadsden policeman, went to Shankie’s home and found him there just inside the front door lying on his back with his legs folded under his body. There was a wound on the left side of the chest just below the collar bone. Mr. Bankson described Shankie as…