Pope v. State

96 So.2d 441 (1957)

Robert Earl POPE

v.

STATE.

7 Div. 402.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

January 22, 1957.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1957.

Stringer & Montgomery, Talladega, and McKay, Livingston & Worthy, Sylacauga, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes and George Young, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment charged first degree murder of John Frederick Ridley. Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of Twenty years.

The difficulty which resulted in the death of Fred Ridley occurred at the home…