Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington. Tried before the Hon. William S. Anderson. The appellant, ■ Samp Williams, was indicted, tried and convicted, with one Will Wood, for the murder of one Chris Chambliss, “by hanging him with a rope.” The charges, upon the refusal to give which the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded, are sufficiently set forth in the opinion, and it is unnecessary to set out the other rulings of the court to which exceptions were reserved.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington. Tried before the Hon. William S. Anderson. The appellant, ■ Samp Williams, was indicted, tried and convicted, with one Will Wood, for the murder of one Chris Chambliss, “by hanging him with a rope.” The charges, upon the refusal to give which the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded, are sufficiently set forth in the opinion, and it is unnecessary to set out the other rulings of the court to which exceptions were reserved. The charge “that proof of contradictory statements or declarations on a material point made by the witness, John…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, J. —
Charge 11 requested by defendant, “That proof of contradictory statements or declarations on a material point made by the witness, John *20Hollingheadj may be sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to the truth of the testimony of the witness, John Hollinghead,” and charge 12 of the same tenor as to the witness, Aaron Hollinghead, should have been given.— Washington v. State, 58 Ala. 356 ; Gregg v. State, 106 Ala. 44, 49.
There is no merit in the remaining exceptions reserved on the trial below.
Reversed and remanded.
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