Roemer v. State

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Anthony Lanica Roemer, was indicted for murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975, but was convicted of manslaughter, a violation of § 13A-6-3, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 11 years in the state penitentiary-

The state’s evidence tended to show that on March 11, 1994, Roemer shot and killed Jerry Eaton during an argument at Derrell Briggins’s house. Briggins testified that on the night Eaton was killed Briggins was operating an unlicensed drinking establishment at his house and that he, Roemer, Eaton, and several other people…