Harris v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal, from Franklin Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. P. Almon. Luden Harris was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following charges were refused defendant: “(3) If yon are reasonably satisfied from all the evidence in this case that Luden Harris killed Zophus Jackson in self-defense, as I have defined self-defense to you in my charge to yon, it is your duty to acquit.”
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Appeal, from Franklin Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. P. Almon. Luden Harris was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The following charges were refused defendant: “(3) If yon are reasonably satisfied from all the evidence in this case that Luden Harris killed Zophus Jackson in self-defense, as I have defined self-defense to you in my charge to yon, it is your duty to acquit.” “(6) If yon are reasonably satisfied from all the evidence in this case that at the time of the killing Lncien Harris was under duress of…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
— The case was tried on issues joined on the defendant’s pleas of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity.”.
So far as the record discloses, there was no eye witness of the killing; but there was evidence of an admission by the defendant that he killed the deceased by shooting him with buckshot, and also evidence as to the location of the body of the deceased, as it was found shortly after the shooting was heard by a. witness who was some distance away, as to some gun wadding being found near a tree about 10 steps distant from the body of the deceased, and as to the finding where…
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