Triplett v. State

Ethridge, P. J.,

delivered the-opinion of the court.

Louis Triplett, the appellant, was indicted for murder in the circuit court of Winston county, and upon trial was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary; from which conviction he appeals here.

It will not be necessary to set forth the substance of the testimony for the state and for the defendant. Suffice it to say that the tendency of the state’s evidence was to make the case one of murder, while the tendency of the defendant’s evidence was to make the case one of self-defense. Nevertheless there…