Daly v. State

The appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Limestone County of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to ninety days imprisonment in the county jail. From this judgment he appeals.

The State’s evidence tends to show that appellant spent the afternoon of August 8, 1968, in and around Rainey’s Tavern in Elkton, Tennessee, which is a short distance over the Alabama state line; that later in the afternoon, after having eaten supper with one of his friends, he came- back to the tavern for a short while; and that he then started for home driving his sister’s 1961 cream colored Ford…