Parham v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. The defendant was indicted for the murder of His wife, Murzy Parham, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for 20 years. It does not appear from the record what the difference between the copy of the indictment served on defendant and the original indictment consisted in.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. The defendant was indicted for the murder of His wife, Murzy Parham, convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for 20 years. It does not appear from the record what the difference between the copy of the indictment served on defendant and the original indictment consisted in. Motion to quasli the venire and the objection of the defendant to being put on trial is stated in the record to be that no true copy of the indictment was served on defendant. The facts relative to the offense are…
1Opinion of the Court
DENSON, J.-
Emmett Parham was indicted for murdering his wife Murzy Parham. He was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for 20 years. From the judgment of conviction, the defendant appealed.
There is no merit in the insistence that a copy of ihe indictment was not served on the defendant. — Will Stoudenmeire’s Case, (Ala., Nov. term, 1905) 40 South. 48; Bodine’s Case, 129 Ala. 106. 29 South. 926.
The mangled remains of the dead wife were found on the track of the Southern Railroad in Lawrence county, at a point near a. station called…
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