Booker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before the Hon. John Moose. The defendant in this case was indicted for an assault on Mrs. Hutli Shaddock, with intent to murder her, as alleged in the first count, or, as alleged in the second count, with intent to rob; and on the trial, issue being joined on the plea of not guilty, he was found guilty as charged in the first count.
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From the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before the Hon. John Moose. The defendant in this case was indicted for an assault on Mrs. Hutli Shaddock, with intent to murder her, as alleged in the first count, or, as alleged in the second count, with intent to rob; and on the trial, issue being joined on the plea of not guilty, he was found guilty as charged in the first count. On the trial, as the bill of exceptions states, Mrs. Shaddock was examined as a witness for the State, and testified to the circumstances of an assault upon her, at her store in East Selma, about seven o’clock in the…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J.
— There is a motion in this case to establish a bill of exceptions, or, rather, to amend the one signed by the presiding judge and found in the record. The exact motion is, to have the record show the judge’s ruling on a charge asked, and not shown in the transcript. The testimony is, that before the jury retired the charge was asked in waiting, and was refused. Twenty or thirty minutes after the jury had retired, and before they returned a verdict, they were brought back into court, and the identical charge previously refused was given to them, the judge informing them he had…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Hall v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1867
- State v. GivensSupreme Court of Alabama · 1843
- Degraffenreid v. ThomasSupreme Court of Alabama · 1848
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