Lowery v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The indictment by the Grand Jury of Lee County, Alabama, charged Clara Lowery with the first degree murder of James Lowery, her husband, by shooting him with a shotgun. The Jury’s verdict and judgment found the appellant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and fixed punishment at five years in the penitentiary of the State of Alabama.

The State presented the testimony of Wanda Diane Bell, who testified that she lived in Smith’s Trailer Park off the Columbus Highway in Opelika, Alabama. She stated that the appellant and her husband lived in the trailer on Lot No. 17, which…