Hall v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The defendant, appellant here, was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of murder. The indictment charging that jle “* * * unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Ethel Luck by forcibly drowning her”. The sentence imposed on the defendant was death by electrocution. The appeal here is under the automatic appeal statute. Code of Alabama 1940, Title 15, § 382; Acts, 1943, p. 218, sec. 2, Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 382(2).

Two questions are argued on this appeal. The first is that there was not sufficient proof of the corpus delicti to justify the admission in evidence…