Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. E. Blackwood. Tom Jackson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear.
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Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. E. Blackwood. Tom Jackson was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. The following are the charges referred to as refused to defendant: (2) The court charges you, gentlemen of the jury, that, before you can convict defendant, you must be satisfied to a moral certainty, not only that the proof is concistent with defendant’s guilt, but that it is wholly inconsistent with defendant’s innocence; and, unless the jury is so convinced by the evidence of defendant’s guilt that you…
1Opinion of the Court
SAYRE, J(1) Appellant was indicted jointly with one George McAfee for the murder of Joe Chappell by shooting him with a gun or pistol. A severance was had, and appellant alone was on trial. The evidence tend*38ing to connect both appellant and McAfee with the crime was circumstantial. The killing occurred between 7 and 8 o’clock of a July night in the vicinity of a numerously attended negro picnic. Appellant denied any participation in or knowledge of the shooting. But he had attended the picnic, to which he carried a Winchester rifle, and must have been in the neighborhood at the time. A…
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