Cleveland v. State

Appellant, John G. Cleveland, alias Jack Cleveland, was convicted^ of murder in the second degree in the cifcuit court of Mobile county. The indictment contained four counts. Each was in statutory form, and each charged appellant with killing Stephen Lossing. The first charged the killing to be done by shooting deceased with a gun; the second by striking him with a spade; the third by striking him with a baseball bat; and the fourth by striking him with some blunt instrument, a more particular description of which was unknown to the grand jury. The court gave the affirmative charge for the…