Canty v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

This is the second appeal in this cause. On the first trial the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed by the jury at death. This court affirmed the judgment. Canty v. State, 238 Ala. 384, 191 So. 260.

The judgment of this court was reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States, without opinion, Canty v. Alabama, 309 U.S. 629, 60 S.Ct. 612, 84 L.Ed. 988, citing Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227, 60 S.Ct. 472, 84 L.Ed. 716. On the second trial there was verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and punishment fixed at…