Booker v. State

NIX, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Loyett Wesley Booker, was charged by information in the District Court of Cleveland County with the crime of murder, committed while under the influence of intoxicating liquor after a former conviction of a similar offense. The jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and left the punishment to the court who sentenced plaintiff in error to ten years in the state penitentiary. The information under which the subject was charged set forth the former conviction as a basis for the second offense and a felony in the following language:

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