Williams v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Manslaughter; ten years imprisonment.

This is the second trial of this case, the first being reversed by this court. Williams v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 387 So.2d 295 (1980).

During the early morning hours of November 6, 1978, appellant and his wife began to fight over, inter alia, the presence of several guests of appellant at their house. Both appellant and his wife had been drinking heavily for several hours. During the course of their struggle, appellant stated that his wife said that, “She was going to get a gun and shoot me.” Appellant prevented his wife from executing her…