Murray v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Assault and Battery. Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. T. W. Coleman, Jr. Dock Murray, was convicted of an assault and battery Avitb a weapon, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. The first two charges are the affirmative charges.
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Assault and Battery. Appeal from Anniston City Court. Heard before Hon. T. W. Coleman, Jr. Dock Murray, was convicted of an assault and battery Avitb a weapon, and he appeals. The facts sufficiently appear. The first two charges are the affirmative charges. The third charge in the record is as follows: A “reasonable doubt” is a doubt for which a reason can be given and if any part of the evidence in the case, considered in connection with all the evidence, convinces you that the defendant was justified in striking when and as he did, this would raise a reasonable doubt, as to' his guilt, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The witness Barton during his examination testified without objection that he was foreman of the cardroom of the Anniston Manufacturing Company, and that, when he came to Anniston and entered the employ of that company in the capacity of foreman, the defendant was working there, and that he discharged the defendant on the 10th of September, and the difficulty in which the defendant cut the witness occurred on the 19th of September.(1) The court, over the objection of the defendant, allowed the witness Cochran to testify that the defend*178ant, Murray, was working under Barton, and that Barton…
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- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Spicer v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
- Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Tidwell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
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- Stokley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950
- Cowart v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- Brown v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1945
- Stevenson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
- Shoemake v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1920
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