Alabama Court of Appeals January 18, 1944, 4 Div. 776. (Starke v. State)

SIMPSON, Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment of conviction of 'manslaughter and a sentence of five years imprisonment.

It was competent, as bearing upon the issue of self-defense, for the State to prove that immediately after defendant felled him with an axe the deceased was searched and no weapon was found. Hendley v. State, 200 Ala. 546, 76 So. 904; Ousley v. State, 23 Ala.App. 139, 122 So.