Thomas v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

Appellant was tried in the Circuit Court of Morgan County upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict finding appellant guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixing his punishment at a term of ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. He appealed.

The evidence adduced upon the trial of this case for the State tended to, show that on the night of December 13, 1945, Man-ford Chaffin, a white man, was stabbed on a public street in the city of Decatur, Alabama, and died shortly thereafter. The cutting occurred about eleven o’clock at…