Edgil v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

On March 1st, 1934, the dead body of Augustus Ivey was found beneath a railroad trestle near Jasper, Alabama. The trestle was about 90 feet in length and 70 feet in height at its highest point.

According to the testimony of the coroner the injuries found on the body of the deceased were: “A scar over his right eye or temple, and his left shoulder was broken, the big - bone in the shoulder, and he had bruises on his left elbow and his right elbow.”

The officer reported the cause of death to be accidental.

At the May 1951 term of court Steve Edgil and Sam Darty were jointly…