Brice v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Lincoln county of the crime of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of twenty years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

On the night of O'ctoher 12, 1931, appellant stabbed Nelson Magee to death. The homicide occurred at a circus held on the fair grounds in the city of Brookhaven. Appellant is a negro, and so was the deceased. Appellant claimed self-defense, that Nelson Magee was the aggressor, and that he stabbed deceased in order to save his life or avoid great bodily harm.

The evidence for the…