Lightfoot v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and appealed to the Court of Appeals. That court has ordered a reversal and the case is here by petition for writ of certiorari. While it does not appear from the opinion of the Court of Appeals that the substance of all the evidence in the record was set out in the opinion, we deem this of no consequence under our limited rule of review by certiorari. Hale v. Layer, 247 Ala. 10, 22 So.2d 349.

The phraseology used in the opinion on which a reversal is rested is as follows:

“* * * In our opinion there is too great…