Ducett v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Hale Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Charles E. Waller. Ross D-ucett was convicted of murder in the second ■ degree, his punishment fixed at 50 years in the penitentiary, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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Appeal from Hale Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Charles E. Waller. Ross D-ucett was convicted of murder in the second ■ degree, his punishment fixed at 50 years in the penitentiary, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following charges were refused to defendant: (3) Proof of defendant’s good character, taken in connection ivith the other evidence in the case, may be sufficient to generate a reasonable doubt of defendant’s guilt, requiring his acquittal of the offense charged. (4) If all the evidence in a case tending to establish the guilt of a…
1Opinion of the Court
SAYRE, J. —
We are clear in our opinion that the evidence of the corpus delicti and of defendant’s crim*36inal agency was sufficient to- carry the general question of defendant’s guilt as charged to the jury. The death of the person charged to have been killed was not questioned — was proved beyond peradventure. Deceased, a negro girl, and defendant were alone in a room at the time the former received the fatal wound. The time was shortly after midday on Sunday, and they had just returned together from “meeting.” There was nothing to suggest suicide, save defendant’s statement made immediately…
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