Lee v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Geneva County; H. A. Pearce, Judge. Ammie Lee was convicted of manslaughter, and lie appeals. The defendant was indicted and tried in the court below upon a charge of murder in the first degree, and was convicted of manslaughter, and from the judgment of conviction he appeals. Upon the trial there were certain exceptions reserved to the rulings of the court on the evidence. The facts sufficient to a decision on these questions appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSamford, J.
[1,2] The defendant sought to prove by one Tom Farmer that a pistol found near the body of the deceased was the property of the witness, and that the witness had let the deceased have it the morning before the killing took place that night. The court sustained the state’s objection to this testimony, and the defendant excepted. At the time this testimony was offered there was no testimony tending to show that the pistol had ever been in the possession of the deceased, or that the deceased had ever attempted to use the pistol, or that the defendant killed deceased in self-defense. The…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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