Hooks v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charged murder in the first degree. Defendant was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Charlie Jones, a Selma, Alabama, police officer, testified that on March 2, 1968, his attention was attracted to an ambulance parked at 431 Broad Street, in Selma; that he saw the ambulance attendants bringing a man out of the house on a stretcher. After looking at the man and talking with the attendants he went into the house where he saw the defendant walking around. There was…