Prior v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Indiot/ment for Murder. From tlie Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the lion. John P. Hubbard. Tiie defendant in this case, Nathan Prior, was indicted and tried, jointly with Daniel Lawrence, for the murder of Man Copeland, by shooting him with a pistol; was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years, Lawrence being acquitted.
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Indiot/ment for Murder. From tlie Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the lion. John P. Hubbard. Tiie defendant in this case, Nathan Prior, was indicted and tried, jointly with Daniel Lawrence, for the murder of Man Copeland, by shooting him with a pistol; was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years, Lawrence being acquitted. On the trial, as the bill of exceptions shows, the State having introduced one .Mobley as a witness, who testified that he was present at the time of the difficulty between the deceased and the defendant,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
1. The defendant was indicted for the murder of one Copeland, and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.
The Circuit Court, upon the trial, allowed a witness, by way of introduction to the facts attending the killing of deceased, to advert in general terms to a difficulty between the deceased and one "Warren, immediately preceding the one with the defendant, the former of which is shown to have led to the latter. In this we think there was no error, the two affrays being so closely connected as to obviously constitute but one and the same transaction. The interference of the…
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