Mann v. State

STAKELY, Justice.

O. B. Mann (appellant) was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. This appeal is solely upon the record. The appellant has the right to bring his case to this Court in this manner. Jones v. State, 237 Ala. 614, 188 So. 384.

On November 17, 1955, pursuant to the authority vested in the judge by virtue of the Act of the Legislature which appears in Acts of 1953, Vol. I, p. 280, as well as by virtue of § 115, Title 13, Code of 1940, the Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit by written directions to the Clerk of the Court set…