Heningburg v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semines. Antwine Heningburg was convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semines. Antwine Heningburg was convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The following part of the oral charge was excepted to by the defendant: “There has been much evidence in the case on the subject of drunkenness', and also as applicable to insanity; and the court will charge you on that to this effect: Two conditions may be produced by drunkenness — the first where the memory and the discretion are affected by mere intoxication as such, and where the mind…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
—The defendant was indicted for the murder of his wife, Florence, and was tried for murder in the second degree. On a former trial he was convicted of murder in this degree, and on this trial, the plea of acquittal of murder in the first degree was confessed, and he was tried, as stated, for murder in the lower de*16gree. He was convicted thereof, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. He pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. The evidence tended to show that defendant shot his wife while he was intoxicated from the use of whiskey. It also tended to show that he…
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