King v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee County sentencing appellant to serve a term of twenty years in the State Penitentiary. Appellant was tried upon an indictment charging him with murder. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of manslaughter.

The events and circumstances leading to appellant’s conviction are shown by the State to have begun about 8:30 o’clock on the night of April 19, 1963, at a place of business operated by him, called a “bootleg joint.” The deceased, Arthur Thompson, in company with Ed Boyd and Boyd’s wife, Mrs. Bobbie Nell Boyd, went to…