Walker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Walker. Tried, before tlie Hon S. IT. Sprott. The appellant in this case, Henry Walker, was indicted and tried for the murder of Maggie Dickinson,. was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Walker. Tried, before tlie Hon S. IT. Sprott. The appellant in this case, Henry Walker, was indicted and tried for the murder of Maggie Dickinson,. was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. On the trial of the case, it was shown that Mrs. Dickinson, the deceased, who was the wife of Joseph Dickinson, was found at her house, lying across a bed, in an unconscious condition; that her clothes and the bed were very bloody and that her skull was fractured from several wounds with a blunt instrument of some sort, and that from the…
1Opinion of the Court
DOWDELL, J. —
The act creating the 14th judicial circuit, approved .March 6, 1903, page 88, fixed the terms of the circuit court for Walker county — the first term *64beginning the first Monday .in January, “and may continue until the 30th day of June, except the two Aveeks beginning the third Monday in February.” The second term, “shall be held on the-first Monday in September and may continue until the 31st day of December.”
The court at Avhich the indictment in this cause AAras found was convened and organized on Monday, the 16th day of March, 1903. It is now contended that the court Avas not…
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