Mount v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years. From the judgment of conviction and sentence rendered thereon he prosecutes this appeal.

The appellant and his wife Olene lived next door to the deceased Rosa Lee Burnett and her husband Judge Burnett in Lock’s quarters in Andalusia, some 21 feet separating the two houses which faced Lock Street. The families had so lived for some five or six years, and had always been on good terms. On the night of 29-30…