Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of R. L. Hipp. The indictment was preferred and the trial had at a special term of the Cullman circuit court held by order of the presiding judge of the Eighth judicial circuit.
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Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of R. L. Hipp. The indictment was preferred and the trial had at a special term of the Cullman circuit court held by order of the presiding judge of the Eighth judicial circuit. The killing is alleged to have occurred on the 11th day of April, and the order for the special term was made the 18th day of April, 1905, calling ¡-he special term to convene on May 22,1905. The defendant moved a change of venue upon the grounds that on account of public sentiment and the…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
The indictment upon which this defendant was tried and convicted was preferred by a grand jury organized at a special term of the court after notice that the court would be held had been given in conformity to the statutes. — §§ 914 and 915 of the code of 1896. The trial was also had at that special term.
The regularity of the order convening the court is assailed in only one particular. It is upon the point that the judge of the Eighth judicial circuit, who ordered the special term, and who presided over it, was without authority to hold it because he was at that date bound to, be in…
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