Cobb v. State

The evidence for the state tended to prove that defendant, who was the chief of pqlice in Florence, Ala., and one Ham, a policeman of the same town, were engaged in searching the person of the deceased, Fat Head by name; that while they were so engaged deceased broke away and ran, the officers _ ran after him, and while deceased was running, with no weapon in his hands, and without effort on the part of deceased to resist, except by. flight, the officers began shooting at him with pistols, and one bullet from the pistol of defendant struck deceased in the middle of the back, going “straight…