Neveils v. State

145 So.2d 883 (1962)

James Willard NEVEILS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. D-168.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

October 25, 1962.

Wayne E. Ripley, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

McLANE, Associate Judge.

The appellant (defendant) was tried upon an indictment charging second degree murder of his wife and convicted of manslaughter, from which he appeals.

The appellant and his wife had been married for a number of years, his wife being a chronic alcoholic who also suffered from asthma.…