Grant v. State

STAKELY, Justice.

The appellant, Noel J. Grant, was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. His punishment was fixed at death by electrocution. The appeal comes to this court under the automatic appeal act. General Acts 1943, p. 217 et seq., Code 1940, Tit. 15, § 382(1) et seq.

On March 9, 1947, state witness Ora Barton Ewing while driving back from Fort Morgan in Baldwin County discovered a human hand sticking out of the sand a short distance from the side of the road. He reported the matter to the authorities with the result that the body of a woman was dug up from a…