State v. Zannino

Kenna, Judge:

Albert James Zannino, then aged twenty-two, was indicted in the Criminal Court of Harrison County for the murder of his father, J. F. Zannino, on the evening of August 15, 1945, by shooting him in the left chest with a double barrel shotgun at close range. To a sentence of from one to five years for voluntary manslaughter, after the Circuit Court of Harrison County had refused a writ of error, this writ of error was granted.

The specific assignments of error are based upon the giving of State’s instructions one to six inclusive, and State’s instruction number eleven and the…