Jackson v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

On March 16, 1976, the grand jury of Covington County indicted the appellant for first degree murder. The indictment charged that Cleo D. Jackson “. unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Roy Charles Crittenden by so operating the motor vehicle he was driving as to cause it to run into, over, upon, or against a vehicle in which the said Roy Charles Crit-tenden, was riding and thereby causing the death of Roy Charles Crittenden. . . . ”

The appellant was tried and found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and punishment was fixed at two years imprisonment.

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