Wilson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Presiding Judge.
Murder, second degree: sentence, ten years and one day in the penitentiary.
Appellant’s brief has not complied with Rule A 49 Ala.App. XXI.
I
The State’s case rested on circumstantial evidence to the effect that the deceased, Shirley James, did not die from suicide by a rifle shot. The appeallant and deceased, according to one witness, had quarreled shortly before she was shot. Her left eye was “real black.” The appellant alone was present with her when the ambulance came to carry her to the hospital. She died there.
At the hospital, a witness noticed that both the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1853
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- Taylor v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1922
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