Hopkins v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the I-Ion. Samuel. H. Sprott. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pickens. Tried before the I-Ion. Samuel. H. Sprott. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. The defendant excepted to the giving by the court, at the written request of the State, charges numbered one and two> which are in the following language: 1. “ ‘Deliberate’ and ‘premeditated,’ as these words are used in' the statute' defining murder, mean only this, that the slayer must intend before the blow is delivered, though it be only for ah instant of time before, that he will shoot at the time he does shoot, and that death will be the result of the shot;…
1Opinion of the CourtDenson, J.
The defendant was convicted in the court below of murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. From the judgment of conviction he has appealed.
The first question, presented by the record for consideration, relates to the action of the court in overruling a motion to quash the indictment. The motion was based upon the ground that one Richardson, who had been summoned as a grand juror, was not present when the other members of the grand jury were sworn, but, that he came in the court room after the jury was sworn and while the presiding judge was…
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