Campbell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court of Cleburne. Tried before the Hon. T. J. Burton. The appellant, J. D. Campbell, was indicted and tried for the murder of Arthur York, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cleburne. Tried before the Hon. T. J. Burton. The appellant, J. D. Campbell, was indicted and tried for the murder of Arthur York, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The uneontroverttd évidence was that the homicide occurred on the premises of one W. S. Pruett, in Cleburne county, at a public sale; that Burrell Messer was the father-in-law and that B.ud Messer was a brother-in-law of defendant; that the homicide occurred near a barn or crib on the premises of said Pruett, and some 40 or 50 yards from a…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The defendant set up the plea of self-defense. The evidence was in conflict as fo who was the aggressor. The evidence without dispute showed that the killing occurred at the home of one Pruett, :on the occasion of a public sale, where a good many people were attending; that on said occasion the deceased and one Burrell Messer, who was the father-in-law of *87the defendant, got into a quarrel, and were at the time near a crib a short distance from the dwelling bouse, and that the defendant was not present at the commencement of the quarrel between Messer and deceased, but came upon the scene…
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