Gibson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Geneva Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Pearce. Bill Gibson was convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. In his argument to the jury, the solicitor said: “I understood, and no doubt the jury did, that what the witness Simmons said about what the defendant said that the defendant had done what he came there to do.”
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
Appellant -was tried for the murder of one Ock Austin upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree, and was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a period of 25 years. The defendant shot and killed said Austin in the town of Coffee Springs on a Saturday night in September,- 1914. The deceased, a white man, was at the time of the shooting at a negro- house, with one or two other white men, attending what is referred to in the record as a “negro frolic.” Testimony for the state would tend to show an unprovoked murder by defendant, as witnesses…
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