32 Ala. App. 235 - Mount v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. ““Section 320 of Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940, defines manslaughter as follows: ‘Manslaughter, by voluntarily depriving a human being of life, is manslaughter in the first degree; and manslaughter committed under any other circumstances is manslaughter in the second degree.’ Thus manslaughter is not defined, except as to degrees. The section must be read in connection with the common law, which defines manslaughter in the first degree as the unlawful and felonious killing of another, without any malice, express or implied, by volun tarily depriving him of life. Turner v. State, 160 Ala. 55 , 49 So. 304 .” See also Clarke v. State, 117 Ala. 1 , 23 So. 671 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Ala. App. 730 - Cunningham v. State · 375 So. 2d 530 - Briggs v. State