Aaron v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa. Tried before the Hon. John Henderson. The prisoner in this case, who was a freedman, “usually known and called Aaron Cosby,” was indicted in said-circuit court, at its November term, 1865, together with another freedman by the name Ely, alias Ely Carlisle, for the larceny of two horses; was tried and convicted at the same term of the court, and sentenced to be hanged on the 9th day of March, 1866; and the judgment was affirmed by this…
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From the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa. Tried before the Hon. John Henderson. The prisoner in this case, who was a freedman, “usually known and called Aaron Cosby,” was indicted in said-circuit court, at its November term, 1865, together with another freedman by the name Ely, alias Ely Carlisle, for the larceny of two horses; was tried and convicted at the same term of the court, and sentenced to be hanged on the 9th day of March, 1866; and the judgment was affirmed by this court, on appeal, at its January term, 1866. See the case reported in 39th Ala. Bep. 684-90. On the day appointed for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJudge, J.
It is provided by statute in this State, that, “whenever any person is sentenced to the punishment of death, the court must direct that he be hanged by the neck until he is dead” ; and that'“ such sentence must be executed by the proper executive officer of the law, on such day as the court may appoint, not less than four, nor more than eight weeks from the time of the sentence”; and further, that “when, from any cause, any convict sentenced to death has not been executed pursuant to such sentence, the same stands in full force, and the circuit court of the county in which such convict was…
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