Beaird v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted for the offense of murder in the first degree, killing Henry Ingram, by shooting him with a pistol. His punishment was fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary by the jury.

It appears from the evidence that Henry Ingram, the deceased, was a policeman in city of Attalla at the time he was killed, and had defendant under arrest. This municipality employed counsel to assist in the prosecution of the ease. Two of the .jurors who qualified and who were on the venire were taxpayers of this city, and one resided within and the other without the…