Snipes v. State

BUFORD, C. J.:

The record in this case was originally assigned to Mr. Justice CHAPMAN to prepare an opinion and judgment for the Court. He carefully and conscientiously prepared one with which the whole Court in the main agrees but in which the majority cannot concur for the reason that the conclusion reached in that opinion is that the judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded for judgment as for conviction of manslaughter.

The verdict of murder in the first degree was quite evidently the result of prejudice, as there is no evidence in the record to establish the element of…