Barnett v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

However harrowing may be the details of this most lamentable incident, which resulted in the death of Miss Alverson, causes must be tried according to the rules of law as they exist, and are not to be construed or twisted to meet a certain state of facts. Lay v. State, 26 Ala.App. 458, 162 So. 319. The law of homicide has been the subject of the decisions of our courts from the beginning of our jurisprudence, resulting in well-defined rules known to all and not here necessary- to repeat. These rules apply to the intent, the method, and manner of the homicide, and the' division…