Granberry v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lee Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Ltjm Duke. Hill Cranberry was convicted of murder in the first degree, sentenced to be hanged, and appeals.
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Appeal from Lee Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Ltjm Duke. Hill Cranberry was convicted of murder in the first degree, sentenced to be hanged, and appeals. The following are the charges referred to in the opinion : “(I) I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that in order for this defendant to be responsible for the crime with which he is charged, he must have had sufficient power of memory to recollect the relation in which he stood to others, and in which others stand to him; that the act he was doing was contrary to the plain dictates of justice and right, and injurious to others,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
— The trial court had a discretion, under section 7178 of the Code of 1907, as to granting the defendant’s motion to execute an inquisition as to his mental status at the time of the trial.
There was no error in permitting the witness Betts to prove that the body of the deceased was lying on the Chambers county side, 125 to 150 yards from the county line between Lee and Chambers counties. The witness did not have to be an expert surveyor or see the line surveyed in order to tell where the line was between the two counties. He testified to what was generally known and considered as the line for…
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