Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. T. W. Coleman, Jr. John Williams was convicted of murder in tbe second degree, and be appeals.
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Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. T. W. Coleman, Jr. John Williams was convicted of murder in tbe second degree, and be appeals. Tbe facts made by tbe evidence are, substantially, that some two or three bonrs before tbe killing, tbe defendant. went to tbe borne of tbe deceased, and in bis absence bad an altercation with deceased’s wife about a matter pertaining to defendant’s wife, in wbicb certain threats were used by defendant as to deceased’s wife and all her family. Later on in tbe same day deceased, with bis wife and stepson,-came to tbe dwelling of defendant, and found…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
The state showed without objection that the defendant, an hour or two before the killing, which occurred within the curtilage of defendant’s home, had gone to the home of the deceased and there had an angry conversation with the wife of deceased, during which he had made threats comprehensive enough to embrace the deceased, as well as his wife. The state was permit*57ted, over defendant’s objection, to show that defendant had at the time a pistol. This, in connection with the threat, was permissible for the purpose of illustrating defendant’s mental attitude towards the deceased when the latter…
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