Redd v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ai’peal from Russell Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. H. D. Clayton. At tbe fall term, 1881, of said court, John Redd, the appellant, was indicted and tried for the* murder of one Lucy Lee, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to be hanged.
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Ai’peal from Russell Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. H. D. Clayton. At tbe fall term, 1881, of said court, John Redd, the appellant, was indicted and tried for the* murder of one Lucy Lee, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to be hanged. From this judgment he took an appeal to this court, and on the hearing of that appeal, at a former day of this term, the judgment of the lower court was i’eversed and the cause remanded. B'edd v. The State, 68 Ala. 492. After the remandment of the cause, the defendant was again…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeeyille, J.
The indictment in this case is for murder, and charges that the defendant “ unlawfully and with malice .aforethought, did kill Lucy Lee by st/rangulation, in this, to-wit, that he ohokecl her to death." When the case was last here on ¡appeal, it was ruled, that the indictment conformed substantially to the form prescribed by the Code, and was sufficiently definite as to the description of the means employed in perpetrating the killing. To this view we still adhere. — Redd v. The State, 68 Ala. 492; Code of 1876, p. 991, Form 2.
The question raised on the organization of the jury was decided…
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