Williams v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant was charged and convicted of killing Taylor Fulks. The parties were neighbors owning adjoining land, and the difficulty resulting in the homicide grew out of a dispute over the land line between the two farms.

There was evidence tending to prove that the first qct of aggression was on the part of defendant, and those with him, throwing rocks at the deceased. At this point the solicitor asked the witness, a son of deceased, who was then testifying: “At the time the rocks were first thrown your father was in his own field?” This question called for legal evidence as…