Kissic v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant was originally indicted for murder in the first degree. His first trial resulted in a judgment of guilty of murder in the second degree.

This judgment was reversed by the Supreme Court, 266 Ala. 71, 94 So.2d 202.

In his second trial the appellant has again been adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to a term of ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

On the afternoon of 8 November 1955 Nile Collard, the deceased, stopped his automobile in front of the home of Herman Ragsdale, and attracted attention by sounding the horn of his…