Livingston v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree of Honorable A. B. Cunningham, Judge of the Circuit Court of Etowah County, Alabama, denying appellant’s bail in a habeas corpus proceeding.

In the proceedings below the State introduced the indictment against this appellant charging him with murder in the first degree.

Petitioner then introduced two witnesses who testified as to a dying declaration made by the deceased which would tend to exonerate the petitioner.

In rebuttal to the evidence offered by the petitioner, the State introduced Mr. C. E. Brooks, State Investigator, who testified as to a…