Hill v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marshall Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Cleveland Hill ivas tried and convicted of manslaughter. The facts upon which the opinion is. rested sufficiently appear therein.
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Appeal from Marshall Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Cleveland Hill ivas tried and convicted of manslaughter. The facts upon which the opinion is. rested sufficiently appear therein. The following written charges were requested by the defendant, and refused: “(15) The court charges the jury that in weighing the testimony of any ivitness you will look to all the facts and circumstances in evidence, including any evidence, if any, tending to show that such ivitness has sworn falsely intentionally about any fact in the case. (C) The court charges the jury that a reasonable doubt…
1Opinion of the CourtDenson, J.
The indictment charges manslaughter in the first degree. From a judgment of conviction the defendant appealed.
*55The killing occurred on a Sunday afternoon in June, 1904. The defendant, and others, all barely grown and hardly in the 20’s had been attending singing exercises at Mobb’s Schoolhouse. After the exercises were over they congregated in the road near, the schoolhouse and engaged in “friendly scuffles and play-,” out of which grew the unfortunate difficulty in which the deceased lost his life at the hands of the defendant. The deceased was a cripple.- In his infancy his feet were so…
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