Duck v. State

CATES, Judge.

The grand jury of Cherokee County presented a true bill accusing Billie Duck of murdering his wife, Myrtle Duck, by shooting her with a pistol. The petit jury convicted him of first degree manslaughter- and fixed his punishment at ten years imprisonment.

The inferences susceptible from the evidence and the jury’s verdict would support the following statement of facts:

Mr. and Mrs. Duck were living temporarily in Centre, Alabama, on August 5, 1954. That night they had eaten in the Elite Cafe, gone out in the country twice, and there bought whiskey, had drunk part of the whiskey, had…