Skeggs v. State

Appellant, tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree, was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree, and -his lranishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years.

It was shown that he shot and killed one T. E. Wright.

The contention of the state, as shown by its testimony offered, tending to support same, was that deceased, at the time he was shot by appellant, was a police officer of the city of Decatur, Ala., on active duty. And that as such police officer, deceased was, at the time he was so shot,…