Green v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Sumter Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Samuel H. Sprott. Steptoe Green was convicted of murder in the first degree, and the evidence is substantially the same as is shown by the report of the case when before this court on a former appeal. 96 Ala. 29. The charge given at the instance of the State is set forth in the opinion.
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Appeal from Sumter Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Samuel H. Sprott. Steptoe Green was convicted of murder in the first degree, and the evidence is substantially the same as is shown by the report of the case when before this court on a former appeal. 96 Ala. 29. The charge given at the instance of the State is set forth in the opinion. The defendant excepted to the refusal of the court to give the following charges : (11.) “The court charges the jury that the evidence in this case is purely circumstantial.” (13.) “The evidence in this case is wholly circumstantial. In order to justify a…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J.
— On the tenth day of October, 1892, the Circuit Court of Sumter county being in session, the court made the following orders in reference to the trial of Step-toe Green, the appellant in this case: “Comes J. S. Mc-Eachin, solicitor who prosecutes for the State, and the defendant, Steptoe Green, being present in person and by attorneys ; and the said defendant having heretofore- and at a former term of this court, to-wit: on the 17th day of October, 1891, been arraigned in open court on the indictment in this cause, and he having then and there entered his plea of ‘not guilty,’…
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