Glover v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale County; O. P. Almon, Judge. Volley Glover, alias, etc., was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. The witness Roberts was permitted to testify: “I had a talk with Glover a short time before the killing, something like 10 minutes before, and he said the other fellow had a lemon squeezer, and it snapped, but that he had one that never did. He mentioned no name.”
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale County; O. P. Almon, Judge. Volley Glover, alias, etc., was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. The witness Roberts was permitted to testify: “I had a talk with Glover a short time before the killing, something like 10 minutes before, and he said the other fellow had a lemon squeezer, and it snapped, but that he had one that never did. He mentioned no name.” The witness was also permitted to testify that at the time of the conversation he saw Glover’s pistol, and that Glover had his hand in his pocket at the time. The other facts…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
[1] Defendant named no person in the statements admitted in evidence against him and -made the subject of argument by his counsel on this appeal; but, in the circumstances, it was a question of fact, to be determined by the jury,..whether the threat to be implied therefrom was intended for or directed against the deceased. Ford v. State, 71 Ala. 385; Jordan v. State, 79 Ala. 9; Knight v. State, 160 Ala. 58, 49 South. 764; Defendant’s statements were a clear declaration of readiness for a combat with some definite, though unnamed, person, in which deadly weapons would be used; and these facts,…
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