Shuler v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter with a concomitant jury fixed sentence of eight years. Code 1940, T. 14, §§ 320 & 322.

I

Appellant Shuler, a resident of Ross-ville, Georgia, and his wife on Saturday, February 16, 1974, accepted the invitation of her niece, Mrs. Leon Pendergrass, to spend the weekend with the Pendergrasses at their home in Scottsboro. That evening the Pendergrasses and Shulers went to the Moose Lodge.

At the Lodge there was dancing among other diversions. Around midnight as the evening’s entertainment drew to a close Mrs.…