Coleman v. State

The defendant was indicted for the first degree murder of Clara Mae Hargrove. Alabama Code 1975, Section 13-1-70. A jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree. Sentence was twenty years' imprisonment.

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The failure of the trial judge to give certain written charges requested by the defendant was not properly brought to the attention of that court and has not been preserved for review in this Court. The exceptions taken at the close of the court's instructions to the jury challenged only portions of the oral charge. No mention was made of the refusal of the requested charges. Allen v.…