Alls v. State

Buford, C.J.,

—In this ease plaintiff in error was in-dieted on a charge of murder in the first degree and was convicted of manslaughter and thereupon adjudged to be guilty and sentenced to serve a period of 20 years in the State prison. The deceased was a woman with whom the accused had been living for about three months prior to the homicide.

The version of the accused was in effect that the deceased met her death by the accidental discharge of a pistol while she was attempting to take the same away from the accused with the avowed intent of shooting him with it. The theory of the State was…