Berry v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant in the above-styled cause was indicted by the grand jury of the Bessemer division of the circuit court of Jefferson county, charged with an assault with intent to murder one Cecil Stiggins.

Stiggins was a police officer in the town of Brighton, Ala., and at the time of the assault was engaged in making an arrest without warrant. He was informed by one Murphree that the defendant’s wife wanted Stiggins to come to her home at once and arrest her husband, who was killing her and the children. Upon receiving this information, Stiggins went to the home of the defendant;…