Huff v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to serve imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of two years.

Upon a former trial, under the same indictment, he was convicted of the offense of murder in the second degree. The judgment of conviction rendered on that trial was reversed by this court. See Huff v. State, 23 Ala. App. 426, 126 So. 417.

We adopt as our own, and as being applicable here, the following language taken from the opinion in the case of Hargrove v. State, 147 Ala. 97, 41 So. 972, 973, 119 Am. St. Rep. 60, 10 Ann. Cas. 1126,…