King v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. H. Chamberlain. The prisoner in this case, William King, (who is described in the marginal statement of the names of the parties in the minute-entries as a negro and freedman,) was indicted at the June term, 1866, jointly with one Henry Jordan, for the murder of Ashmore Edwards, “by striking Mm with an axe, or weapon of the like kind.”
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From the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. H. Chamberlain. The prisoner in this case, William King, (who is described in the marginal statement of the names of the parties in the minute-entries as a negro and freedman,) was indicted at the June term, 1866, jointly with one Henry Jordan, for the murder of Ashmore Edwards, “by striking Mm with an axe, or weapon of the like kind.” On the trial, at the same term, as the bill of exceptions states, the following evidence was adduced: “ Levi H. Norton testified, in substance, that on the night of April 30th, or 1st of May, 1866, he, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJudge, J.
The books abound in adjudications upon the question, as to what degree of influence will exclude the evidence of confessions in criminal prosecutions; and upon this question there has been much contrariety of decision. “ This is the more suprising, as the inquiry presents no peculiar difficulty. There is no intricate problem to be solved, no recondite principle to be explored or extracted.” Joy on the Evidence of Accomplices, quoted in 1st Leading Cr. Cases, 182. It is not necessary, in this case, that we should enter into any general discussion of the subject, nor that we should notice with…
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