Denton v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Albert Sidney Denton was tried and found guilty in Baldwin County under an indictment for murder in the first degree which charged that he killed Leroy E. Miller by shooting him with a pistol. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary and from the judgment imposing that sentence, he appeals.

After the introduction of numerous witnesses, the state rested, and defendant moved to exclude all the evidence on the grounds that the state had failed to establish venue, had failed to show that the court had jurisdiction or had failed to show where the…