Brown v. State

JONES, Judge.

The defendant Earl Kenneth Brown was charged by an information filed in the District Court of Marshall County with the crime of murder; was' tried, found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, but the jury was unable to agree upon the punishment and left it to be fixed by the court. Thereafter, the defendant was sentenced to serve a term of 15" years imprisonment in the penitentiary and has' appealed.

The State contended that, the defendant shot and killed Mrs. Zonia Hughes with a .22 rifle. The evidence of- the §tate established that the defendant had married Gladys Plughes,…