Woodall v. State

JOE N. PIGOTT, Commissioner for the Court:1

The appellant was tried in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County on a charge of murder, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and appellant was sentenced to eighteen (18) years with six (6) years of the sentence suspended.

Although the appellant filed eighteen assignments of error, it is only necessary that one assignment be considered as this case must be reversed.

The appellant and Willie Lee Woodall were first married in 1970, were divorced, and remarried in 1974, a marriage that existed in turmoil and concluded in tragedy.

There was…