Legal Opinion
Lee v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 14, 1957No. 7 Div. 303PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice.
James Seldon Lee was indicted for the offense of murder in the first degree by a grand jury of Etowah County and upon his trial upon said indictment was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment was fixed by the jury at death by electrocution. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the jury’s verdict. A motion for new trial filed by counsel for Lee was overruled.
The appeal comes to this court under the provisions of Act No. 249, approved June 24, 1943, General Acts 1943, p. 217, which act provides for an automatic appeal in all cases in which the death…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Parsons v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- Phillips v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
- Smarr v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
- Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
- Myhand v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
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3Cited by59 opinions
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- Duncan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
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- Roger Lee Green v. John W. Wingo, Warden, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972
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