Gaines v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five (5) years.

The homicide grew out of a head-on automobile collision on Sunday afternoon, May 28, 1972, on Alabama Highway 14, about one mile west of the city limits of Eutaw, near the intersection of I-59 and 1-20 in Greene County. This was a two-lane highway at the time and place of the collision.

The facts are not in dispute. At about S :00 P.M. on this occasion, Mrs. Olive R. McGee was driving a 1972…