Childs v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before tbe Hon. H. D. Clayton. The defendants in this case, Isaac Childs, Jacob Childs, and Jerry Childs, were indicted for the murder of Mrs. Hosanna You.
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Feom the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before tbe Hon. H. D. Clayton. The defendants in this case, Isaac Childs, Jacob Childs, and Jerry Childs, were indicted for the murder of Mrs. Hosanna You. The case was before the court on a former day of the present term, when the judgment of conviction was reversed, and the cause remanded, as shown by the report of the case, ante, p. 25. On the second trial in the court below, as shown by the present record, several exceptions were reserved by the defendants to rulings of the court on questions of evidence, and other matters, which the opinion of this…
1Opinion of the Court
MANNING, J. —
The exception to the ruling of the court refusing to exclude the testimony of the witness Cassady, touching the character of Mingo Williams, another witness, cannot be sustained. Mr. Cassady had first testified that he “knew the character of Mingo Williams,” and that so far as he knew it was good, and he thought he would believe him on oath in a court of justice. To all or any of this no objection was made. But having said, on cross-examination, ‘T know the character of Mingo Williams as well as I do any negro, but never heard his character canvassed,” defendants moved to exclude…
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