Patterson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Alston. Clyde Patterson and others were convicted of murder in the first degree, and they appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The appellants were adjudged guilty of the murder of Robert Miller, and are sentenced to imprisonment during their lives. Robert. Miller and Rube Carter were shot to death, from a roadside, while traveling in a wagon. A clear case of assassination was made by the proof. The issue was whether appellants, father and son, were among the guilty agents. There was evidence which, if credited, supported the jury’s finding. Able counsel appeared in their defense below and appear on this appeal, presenting in full brief the grounds upon which insistencies for reversible errors, are rested. In the…
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