Brown v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for murder. He was tried and found guilty of the lesser offense of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act. He was then sentenced to serve a term of five years. A motion for new trial was filed and denied, and defendant appeals. Held:

1. Defendant and the victim, his wife, were in the process of getting a divorce. They lived in a trailer in the rear of a home owned by the defendant’s mother. They were separated, and the defendant had moved in with his mother. There was a family confrontation in the mother’s home on the…