State v. Fowler

Duffy, President Judge.

On September 17, 1963, Carl Grant Fowler was indicted by the Grand Jury of New Castle County for manslaughter, in violation of 11 Del. C. § 595. The events leading to indictment present a classic case of a man bedeviled by a guilty conscience for almost a decade, The facts are these:

*522Fowler was born on November 12, 1935 in West Vir-gania. In October or November 1952 he came to live with his father in Wilmington, Delaware. Just after he became seventeen years of age, and with his father’s consent, he tried to fulfill an ambition of long standing by enlisting in the Navy…