Hodge v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Escambia Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. John P. Hubbard. Tbe evidence tending to prove tbe guilt of tbe defendant was entirely circumstantial, and is sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from Escambia Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. John P. Hubbard. Tbe evidence tending to prove tbe guilt of tbe defendant was entirely circumstantial, and is sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. The only charge ashed by the defendant and refused by the court was: 2. The court further charges the jury that a reasonable doubt is defined to be be a doubt for which a reason can be given. insisted that the testimony of the witness as to foot-prints were mere opinions, citing 3 Brick. Dig. p. 288, §§ 607-608; 52 Ala. 303; II. 370; 59 Ala. 92; 5 Ala. 531; 5 Port. 338. That the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
— I. Rose Stanback was shot and killed in Brewton, by some unknown person, about eight or nine o’clock on a Sunday evening, in February, 1892. Some buckshot were found to have entered a plank in a house near where she was found, and about twenty-five steps away were afterwards discovered tracks of a person who wore shoes, and between the tracks and house were found “some colored calico scraps or rags, blackened as if shot with powder, two in number, one having .several holes through it, and some soft thin paper.” These were produced and offered in evidence.
*39The defendant objected to the…
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