Opinion
No. A-6986.
Opinion Filed March 3, 1930.
Appeal and Error — Case Abated Upon Death of Appellant. Where an appeal is prosecuted to this court from a conviction in a criminal case, and, pending the appeal, plaintiff in error dies, the case will be abated.
Appeal from District Court, Delaware County; Ad V. Coppedge, Judge.
James Ervin Rose was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. Cause abated.
E.H. Beauchamp and W.H. Kornegay, for plaintiff in error.
Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., and J.H. Lawson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Delaware county on a charge of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the court at imprisonment for five years in the state penitentiary.
The death of the defendant having been suggested to this court, and it having been made to appear to the court by affidavit and showing of the county attorney that the defendant died on the 13th day of January, 1930, the opinion heretofore filed in said cause is withdrawn, and the said cause is abated.