Stevenson v. State

The appellant, James Stevenson, was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Jefferson county for murder and was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

The appellant shot and killed his wife in their home. Other than the appellant, there was only one eyewitness, the sixteen-year old stepson of the appellant. The testimony of this boy, if believed, makes a clear case of murder, while if the testimony of the appellant is accepted the killing was accidental.

In this state of…