Alberson v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for the offense of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death by electrocution. Under the provisions of the automatic appeal statute, Title 15, section 382(1), et seq., Code of 1940 (Pocket Part), his cause is here for review.

The appellant killed Early Stokes about 6:20 in the evening of October 31, 1948, by shooting him with a shotgun. The evidence for the State tended to prove that on the morning of October 31, 1948, the day Stokes was killed, the appellant was in the store of C. L. McIntosh in Enterprise,…