Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From tlie Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Henry O. Speaice. The defendant in this case, Thomas Jackson, was indicted jointly with one Annie Fulcher, for the murder of William Youngblood, “by striking him with a stick;” was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eight years.
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From tlie Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Henry O. Speaice. The defendant in this case, Thomas Jackson, was indicted jointly with one Annie Fulcher, for the murder of William Youngblood, “by striking him with a stick;” was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eight years. On the trial, as appears from the bill of exceptions, the State introduced evidence showing that, on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 25th, 1890, about four o’clock, the deceased, the defendant, and Annie Fulcher got into a skiff together at…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, J.
The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted, in the Circuit Court of Madison county. The charge was murder, and he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. The killing of which the charge was predicated, occurred near the South margin of the Tennessee river, at a point Avhere that stream is more than adialf mile in width, and constitutes the boundary of Madison county on the North, and Morgan county on the South. The evidence of the corpus delicti Avas circumstantial, and left it in doubt whether the act charged Avas committed on the Morgan county bank of the river, or in the…
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