Crowell v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The appellant was indicted by a grand jury selected and impaneled by the circuit court of Jefferson county, charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree, in that he “unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Sam Pilato by shooting him with a pistol,” and on the trial of the case he was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment was fixed at death.

The verdict on whi'ch judgment was entered was in due form. Ruff v. State, 229 Ala. 649, 159 So. 94.

The appellant is represented by counsel and only urges error in the admission of a dying…