Slayton v. State

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The defendant and his wife were lying in their bed, in an upper room of their house in Birmingham, on a night when there was no moon, with the lights all out and the room perfectly dark, when a negro by the name of Joe Percy Bragg went into the house through a rear screen door, went up the stairs to a hallway and through a doorway entering into the room where defendant and his wife were sleeping, fired two shots from a pistol, one of which struck defendant's…