Teague v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The appellant, Wade Teague, alias “Shorty” Teague, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, for the offense of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death.

The testimony is without dispute that the deceased, Hobert Eli Blevins, accompanied by a negro man, Albert Hudson, went to the house of appellant, located at 2126 Seventh Alley, North, Birmingham, Alabama, about eight :thirty or nine o’clock on the night of February 13, 1943. Early on the morning of February 14, 1943, Blevins was found unconscious in a vacant…