Mitchell v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal came on for submission August 18, 1966, on briefs.

Mitchell has noted an appeal from conviction of first degree manslaughter. The jury’s verdict fixed his punishment as well as guilt. The trial judge adjudged Mitchell guilty and sentenced him, conformably with the verdict, to ten years imprisonment. Motion for new trial was overruled.

I

The Grand Jury accused Mitchell of killing six women by driving his truck into another truck operated by one Gibbs causing Gibbs’s truck to be knocked into the car in which the six were riding. Count 2 of the indictment averred that…