Callahan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
BOWEN, Judge.
The appellant was indicted by a grand jury of Mobile County for the murder of one Jerry D. Morgan by stabbing him with a knife. A jury convicted the appellant of manslaughter in the second degree and set his punishment at six months in the county jail. The trial court entered judgment and sentence accordingly. Appellant’s retained trial counsel has been appointed to represent him on his appeal.
The only assignment of error is that the trial judge erred in his definition of felonious in his instructions to the jury.
From the evidence in this case it is apparent that Jerry D. Morgan…
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