Grady v. State

CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried on an indictment, to which he pleaded not guilty, charging him with murder in the first degree of William Kinzalow. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. The trial court rendered judgment and sentence accordingly, from which this appeal was taken.

Testimony of a State’s witness was that in the early evening of June 1, 1963, he and several others, including defendant-appellant and William Kinzalow, were gambling at dice in a garage…