Legal Opinion
Palmore v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 22, 1949No. 4 Div. 537PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAKELY, Justice.
The appellant Dorsey Palmore was in • dieted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. He received the death sentence. This appeal comes to this Court under the automatic appeal act. General Acts *1841943, p. 217 et seq., Code of 1940, Title 15, § 382(1) et seq., Pocket Part.
■ On Wednesday morning April 21, 1948 the body of Carlister Palmore, deceased wife of Dorsey Palmore, was found near the old road between Florala and Lockhart in Covington Comity. Her throat was cut to the honey structure in the back of the neck. Dorsey Palmore was arrested at the home of his…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gafford v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
- McNeill v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- Gordon v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1949
- Lassiter v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1939
3Cited by6 opinions
- Duncan v. State.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1983
- Commonwealth v. BermudezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- McCray v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2010
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977
- Wiggins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
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