Griffin v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Murder. Appeal from Perry Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. B. M. Miller. John Griffiin was convicted of murder, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
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Murder. Appeal from Perry Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. B. M. Miller. John Griffiin was convicted of murder, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The following charges were refused to the defendant : “(2) In deciding on the guilt or innocence of defendant, if you believe from the evidence that he did not fight willingly, and that he was free from fault in bringing on the difficulty, and could not retreat without having increased his peril, and come to consider whether the defendant was actually in danger of death or great bodily harm, or whether the…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
— On Monday, the first day of the term, the court fixed the trial of the indictment against the defendant for the following Thursday. The act approved November 22, 1886 (Acts 1886-7, p. 183), provides that the criminal docket of the circuit courts in Perry and other counties therein named shall be taken up on Monday of the second week of each term. The defendant made this statute the basis of an objection and exception to the recited action of the court. The contention is that the statute is mandatory, and that, therefore the court was without jurisdiction to try the defendant on a day of the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Crawford v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
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- Hale v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
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