Scott v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

John Turner Scott, Jr., plaintiff in error who will hereafter be referred to as defendant, was tried by a jury in the district court of McIntosh County on a charge of Murder, after former conviction of a felony, on a two-stage proceeding. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of the lesser included offense of Manslaughter in the Second Degree. At the second stage of the proceeding, the jury assessed defendant’s punishment at ten years imprisonment. Judgment and sentence was passed by the court on 26th day of March 1968, after which defendant was permitted his freedom on…