McCray v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant, under an indictment charging murder, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for the killing of his baby son. His punishment was fixed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Defendant, a Negro sergeant in the Air Force, stationed at Brookley Field, served as orderly to General Martenstein, the,Base Commanding Officer. He lived with his wife, Lorraine, and their fourteen months old son, John H. McCray, 3rd, in an apartment in a colored community in Mobile.

Defendant’s wife testified for the State. Her testimony tends to show that defendant returned home…