Smith v. State

KNIGHT, Justice.

' The petitioner, Victor Smith, was indicted for the offense of murder in the second degree by the grand jury of Barbour county, sitting at Eufaula, by virtue of the Local Act of the Legislature of Alabama, approved February 12, 1879 (Acts 1878-79, p. 106), entitled an act “To regulate the holding of the. circuit courts of Barbour County.”

The trial was had at Clayton, in said county, at the first .term, 1932, of the circuit court, and the trial resulted in the conviction of the defendant of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment was fixed by the jury at…