Crawley v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Etowah County; J. E. Blackwood, Judge. Pat Crawley, alias, was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and be appeals. Tbe evidence tended to show that, in tbe absence of defendant, Grover Higbtower bad certain goods of defendant attached for rent, and that upon tbe return of defendant be came into tbe bouse and walked through tbe house.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Etowah County; J. E. Blackwood, Judge. Pat Crawley, alias, was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and be appeals. Tbe evidence tended to show that, in tbe absence of defendant, Grover Higbtower bad certain goods of defendant attached for rent, and that upon tbe return of defendant be came into tbe bouse and walked through tbe house. The other witness stated that he heard the wife of defendant scream, and that she broke and ran into the back yard, and continued to scream and halloo out there: and that immediately defendant came td’the room where witness was…
1Opinion of the CourtBrioken, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted for the offense of assault with intent to murder, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The errors complained of on this appeal relate to the rulings of the court upon the evidence, and the refusal of the court to give several written charges requested by the defendant, and also to grant a new trial..
[1,2] There was no error in overruling the objection to the testimony of state’s witness I-Iightower relative to the wife of the defendant screaming immediately before the gun fired, as this testimony related clearly to…
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