Green v. State

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Appellant, James Harold Green, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Mobile County, Alabama, on March 13, 1958, for murder in the first degree. Upon such indictment, appellant was tried by a jury and convicted of murder in the second degree, with punishment fixed at imprisonment for twenty-five years. From such conviction, appellant presents this appeal.

In January 1958, the defendant was residing temporarily on Main Street in Prichard, as his dwelling house on Griffin Street had been partly destroyed by fire. He had hired a carpenter to repair the house and had bought…