Green v. State

POWELL, Judge.

Claude Green was charged by information filed in the district court of Choctaw County with the crime of murder, was tried before a jury and convicted of the included offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at ten years confinement in the State Penitentiary.

The information charged that the defendant did on the 1st day of July, 1956, make an assault upon Alean Green (his divorced wife) with a certain loaded pistol, and that he shot her and she died from the effect of the wounds inflicted.

For reversal of the conviction, six specifications of error are…