Milford v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Weaver. Will Milford was convicted of assault with intent to murder and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. The defense was not guilty by reason of insanity. From the conviction he appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Weaver. Will Milford was convicted of assault with intent to murder and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. The defense was not guilty by reason of insanity. From the conviction he appeals. The general character of the wife (in this case the person assaulted) and her acts, tending to produce strange mental condition, were admissible, and the court erred in excluding the evidence offered in this connection. — White v. The State, 22 So. Ill; McCutehens v. Loggens, 109 Ala. 457; Rhea v. The State. 100 Ala. 119. For…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
The defendant Avas indicted for assault Avith intent to murder, was convicted by a jury, and under the judgment of the court rendered on the verdict was sentenced to the penitentiary for *106twenty years. From this judgment the defendant appeals.
The party upon whom the assault was made was the wife of the defendant. The details of the crime, as shown by the evidence, were brutal in the extreme, and if the defendant was guilty the punishment inflicted by the court was not too severe.
It appears from the evidence that the relations existing between the defendant and his wife at the…
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