Smith v. State

The record of this appeal sustains the accuracy of the following statement taken from the brief of appellant’s counsel:

“This is an appeal from the judgment of the Honorable Schuyler H. Richardson, Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit, denying relief to petitioner on application for bail.

“The appellant is confined in the county jail of Madison County, Alabama, under an indictment and warrant charging him with murder in the first degree.

“On May 15, 1945, the defendant was tried on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree before the Hon. W. J. Haralson, Circuit Judge, acting…