Marler v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indictment for Murder. Appeal from Crenshaw Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. J. K. Henry. At the Spring term, 1879, of the Circuit Court of Crenshaw county, James Thomas Marler, and Andrew Napoleon (alias “Bose”) Bedman, were indicted for tbe murder of William B. Colquitt.
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Indictment for Murder. Appeal from Crenshaw Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. J. K. Henry. At the Spring term, 1879, of the Circuit Court of Crenshaw county, James Thomas Marler, and Andrew Napoleon (alias “Bose”) Bedman, were indicted for tbe murder of William B. Colquitt. Before the trial of the case, Bedman was pronounced insane, by a jury empanneled by the order of tbe court, to try the question of' his sanity, and the court adjudged him insane, and ordered him confined in jail until be could be sent to the State Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa ; that on his return to sanity, be should be…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
— The main question presented for our consideration in this ease, is the admissibility of the wdtness Roberts’ testimony as to what one Redman had previously sworn on the preliminary investigation before the committing magistrate. Redman had there testified for the State, under the sanction of an oath, subject to a full cross-examination by the defendant. Before the trial in the Circuit Court, in which he was jointly indicted with the appellant, Marler, he became insane, and was so pronounced by the verdict of a jury and the judgment of the court, after which a severance of the case was…
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