Glass v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The indictment in this case charged appellant, defendant below, with the offense of murder in the first degree, in that he unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Bobbie Lee Whitehead by shooting him with a pistol, etc.

In answer to the indictment, the defendant interposed a plea of “not guilty,” and also a special plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity,” under the provisions of Section 4S73, of the Code 1923.

The trial of the case, in the court below, resulted in the conviction of the defendant for the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and the jury…