Rhea v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before Hon. Leeoy E. Box. Samuel Rhea was convicted of murder in the second degree and ajopeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before Hon. Leeoy E. Box. Samuel Rhea was convicted of murder in the second degree and ajopeals. The testimony for the State tended to show that the defendant and the deceased, Allen Daniel, got into a quarrel at tile house of one Lou Morgan about a woman by the name of Annie Talbot; that on said Annie Talbot’s refusing to leave the deceased, the defendant said he would kill the deceased, and, as he backed away from where the deceased and the woman were sitting, deceased following him, he shot three times, killing deceased. The testimony for the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
Charges 8, 10, 11, 12 and 15, given by the court in this case, each properly stated the law as to reasonable doubt; and each declared in substance that defendant was entitled to acquittal, unless the testimony convinced the jury beyond reasonable doubt that he was guilty. These charges are so varied in phraseology and presentation as to meet every phase and tendency of the testimony, and every hypothesis it justified counsel in assuming. They seem to have covered the entire field. Yet, the court, at the instance of the prosecution, charged the jury “that if they believed from the evidence…
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