Steele v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried, before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Tbe defendant in tbis case, Tarleton Steele, a freedman, was indicted for tbe mnrder of Lou Anderson “by striking ber with, an axe-helve;” was tried on issue joined on tbe plea of not guilty, convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and sentenced to be banged.
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From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried, before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Tbe defendant in tbis case, Tarleton Steele, a freedman, was indicted for tbe mnrder of Lou Anderson “by striking ber with, an axe-helve;” was tried on issue joined on tbe plea of not guilty, convicted of murder in tbe first degree, and sentenced to be banged. On tbe trial, as tbe bill of exceptions states, it appeared that, at tbe time of tbe killing, and .for some time before, tbe defendant and tbe deceased were living together as man and wife, on a plantation in tbe southern part of Montgomery county, which…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebyille, J.
— The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, for the killing of one Lou Anderson, by striking her with an axe, and was sentenced to be hung.
1. The first exception to the action of the trial court, presented by this appeal for our consideration, relates to the organization of the petit jury under the act approved February 21st, 1887, entitled “An act to more effectually secure competent and well qualified jurors in the county of Montgomery.” — -Acts 1886-7, pp. 190-197. The case being a capital one, the court had made the requisite order for- summoning a special venire of fifty…
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