Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before Hon. J. M. Carmichael. The appellants in this cause were indicted for the murder of Madison Caesar by shooting him with a pistol.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Barbour. Tried before Hon. J. M. Carmichael. The appellants in this cause were indicted for the murder of Madison Caesar by shooting him with a pistol. On the trial, Shade Scarborough was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged; John Williams and Dennis Williams were convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for forty years ; Jim Williams, Will Williams and Tiola Scarborough were convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. One of the State’s witnesses…
1Opinion of the Court
SOMERVILLE, J.—
The question most pressed on our attention, and the one of controlling influence on the merits of this case, is raised by the first charge given by the court at the instance of the State. This charge asserts, in substance, that if the defendants all entered into a conspiracy to assault and heat, or to kill the deceased, and in pursuance of such common design, one of said defendants did kill deceased by shooting him with a pistol, in his own house, and not in self-defense, the other defendants then being near at hand, all of the defendants would be guilty of murder. Other…
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