Gandy v. State

The appellant Jim Gandy was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary for the slaying of Marshall Rials. The only eye-witnesses to the homicide were the defendant and his son, who testified to the facts and circumstances in support of the defendant’s plea of self-defense.

On the morning of the killing the defendant and his son had carried a truck load of seed cotton to Furr Brothers Gin near Hazlehurst to have the same ginned. While the cotton was being unloaded from their truck on a platform and elevated into the gin stands, the deceased, in company…