Cotton v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

T'he indictment in-this case charges murder in the first degree. The trial resulted in a conviction of manslaughter in the first degree and the imposition of a sentence of five years in the state penitentiary.

The State anchored the prosecution on the doctrine of conspiracy.

According to its evidence ’ Roosevelt Eason, Mack Wood, and the appellant entered into a conspiracy to take the life of Leroy Cotton. The latter was the husband of the appellant. Roosevelt carried out the plan or plot by fatally cutting the deceased with a pocket knife.

Concerning the formation of the…