Lane v. State

CATES, Judge.

Lane was indicted (with Joe Lewis Bradley) for second degree murder in the killing of Willie D. White by shooting him with a shotgun.

Bradley pleaded guilty and then turned State’s evidence on Lane’s trial (on a severance), which resulted in a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter with punishment fixed at five years’ imprisonment. A motion for new trial was filed and presented to the trial judge; after a hearing thereon, the motion was overruled.

The State’s evidence is to the effect that Bradley conceived an animus against White, and that Lane encouraged Bradley, suggesting…