Robinson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Elmore Circuit Court. Tried before the Hon. N. D. DeNsoN. Frank Robinson was indicted and tried for the murder of Alphonso Hooper. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the . penitentiary. The evidence for the State was to the effect that the deceased came to. his death from the effect of three pistol shots fired by the defendant.
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Appeal from Elmore Circuit Court. Tried before the Hon. N. D. DeNsoN. Frank Robinson was indicted and tried for the murder of Alphonso Hooper. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the . penitentiary. The evidence for the State was to the effect that the deceased came to. his death from the effect of three pistol shots fired by the defendant. That at the time, the deceased was running away, and the defendant running after him, firing upon him as he ran. The killing oc-cured at a spring about one hundred yards from the home..of the defendant. •■■■For-the defense, the…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN. J\
Neither the contents- nor the exist*16ence of the note received by the deceased from the defendant's sister and found on the person of the former after the homicide, nor of the note from deceased to the sister to which this was1 a response was known to the defendant at the time of the killing. His conduct, therefore, could not possibly ha,vo been influenced in any degree by these notes ; a.nd of course they could not be looked to to furnish a circumstance, either of guilt or innocence, nor of aggravation or palliation in respect of the offense for which he was tried and convicted.…
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