Edmonds v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marion County j C. P. Almon, Judge. Willie Edmonds was indicted for murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The charge is that Edmonds killed Willie Ralls, when about five months old. The defendant seems to be the grandfather of the child, and the evidence for the state tended to show that at the time the shot was fired Calvin Ralls, son-in-law of defendant, had the child in his arms, or was just passing it back to his wife.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Marion County j C. P. Almon, Judge. Willie Edmonds was indicted for murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The charge is that Edmonds killed Willie Ralls, when about five months old. The defendant seems to be the grandfather of the child, and the evidence for the state tended to show that at the time the shot was fired Calvin Ralls, son-in-law of defendant, had the child in his arms, or was just passing it back to his wife. The defendant and his wife objected to Ralls coming upon the place, but he was there to speak to his wife, who was spending the night with…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, P. J.
[1] The ruling of the court on the objections of the solicitor to questions asked the witness Mary Ralls, eliciting evidence as to what occurred while her husband had the child “down behind the garden,” was free from error. These questions assumed the existence of a fact of which at this time .there was no evidence — that Ralls had the baby “down behind the garden.”
[2] It was not material to any issue in this case that Ralls and his wife had a difficulty three weeks before the alleged homicide, and that Ralls’ wife had told her father, the defendant, of the difficulty.
[3] The only purpose of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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