Madry v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lawrence County; R. C. Brickell, Judge. Richard Madry was convicted of murder, and he appeals. The party killed was Bob Odom, and the killing appears to have occurred near the lot or barn of defendant, at least somewhere on the place which belonged to defendant, and on which he and . Odom were farming on shares.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Lawrence County; R. C. Brickell, Judge. Richard Madry was convicted of murder, and he appeals. The party killed was Bob Odom, and the killing appears to have occurred near the lot or barn of defendant, at least somewhere on the place which belonged to defendant, and on which he and . Odom were farming on shares. The following charges were refused to defendant: (3) The law gives a person the right to use such force as may be reasonably necessary under the circumstances by which he is surrounded to protect himself from great bodily harm, as it does to prevent his life…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
[1, 2] Shortly after defendant had shot deceased, and perhaps while deceased still showed some faint signs of life, the wife of the latter appeared upon the scene. Evidence for the state tended to show that defendant, standing near with his xiistol in his hand, told the wife not to go to her husband’s body. Evidence for defendant went to show that the knife of deceased lay upon the ground near his body. While defendant was on the stand as a witness his counsel put this tiuestion:
“I will ask' you whether or not you told her not to go to the body because you wanted the knife identified before…
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