Fuller v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Pike Criminal Court. Tried before Hon W. H. Parks. On the trial the State, introduced Alex Johnson as a witness, who testified that he hired the defendant in December, 1886, from the officers of Pike county, and carried him to his farm in said county, that two or three days afterwards he gave defendant the use of a team to go about twenty miles after defendant’s family, and defendant went and moved his family to witness’ plantation, after which the defendant was…
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Appeal from Pike Criminal Court. Tried before Hon W. H. Parks. On the trial the State, introduced Alex Johnson as a witness, who testified that he hired the defendant in December, 1886, from the officers of Pike county, and carried him to his farm in said county, that two or three days afterwards he gave defendant the use of a team to go about twenty miles after defendant’s family, and defendant went and moved his family to witness’ plantation, after which the defendant was never confined or in the custody of any person, but worked until 21st of June, 1887, when he left and never returned.…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— The indictment in this case was found and presented in court May 4th, 1888. The defendant, Ellis Puller, was let to hire to Alex Johnson by written contract, bearing date December 13, 1886. Puller was under sentence of conviction for three several misdemeanors, and the contract of his hiring was made through Livingston and Worthy, the authorized agents of the county for that service. The term for which Puller was hired was two years, six months and nine days, that being the aggregate of the three sentences to hard labor for the county which had been pronounced against him. Each of the three…
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