Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the District Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. W. P. Chitwood. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of one Will Harris, and was convicted of murder in the first degree,' and sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
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Appeal from the District Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. W. P. Chitwood. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of one Will Harris, and was convicted of murder in the first degree,' and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The testimony for the State, as shown by the bill of exceptions, tended to show that the deceased, Will Harris, and his brother, Ambrose Harris, who were strangers to the defendant, were at a dance where the defendant was ; that daring the dance Ambrose Harris interfered with the dancing, and when asked by the defendant not to interrupt them, he…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
— Plight, of the accused and that he assumed and was known by a false name at the place to which he fled, Mullin’s Station, Tennessee, were relied on by the State as tending to show guilt. To establish the fact of the assumption by him of a false name, the prosecution was allowed, against his objection, to show by the officer who arrested him at Mullin’s Station that the postmaster at that place and another man told him, the officer, “that defendant went by the name of M. L. Jones, and received letters at the postoffice at Mullin’s Station in the name of M. L. Jones.” This testimony was so…
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