Legal Opinion
McMillian v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 6, 1958No. 2 Div. 394PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Justice.
This appellant was tried on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment in the penitentiary, for killing Robert Mc-Querta, also known as Boston McQuerta, by cutting him with a knife or striking him with a bottle.
The evidence for the state tended to show that about 11:30 P.M. on a Saturday night in August, 1957, the defendant and his brother, Willie, cut the deceased with knives at a honky-tonk in Marengo County; that the deceased was stabbed many times in the front of his body by…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Griffith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1891
- White v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Hemingway v. GarthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1874
- Jarrell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
- Moulton v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1923
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Randolph v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1976
- Barnes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Flournoy v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
- Bennett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1991
- Bullard v. WilliamsAlabama Court of Appeals · 1959
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