Dennis v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the I-Ion. J. A. Bilbro. The appellant, Joel T. Dennis, urns indicted and tried for murder, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seven years. The evidence for the State showed that the defendant killed William D. Cunningham, in Jackson county, before the finding of the indictment.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the I-Ion. J. A. Bilbro. The appellant, Joel T. Dennis, urns indicted and tried for murder, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seven years. The evidence for the State showed that the defendant killed William D. Cunningham, in Jackson county, before the finding of the indictment. The State introduced several witnesses who testified that the defendant voluntarily confessed that he killed said Cunningham. It was shown that after killing Cunningham, defendant threw his body in the…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. During the progress of the trial the defendant reserved an exception to the admission of certain evidence, and also exceptions to the refusal of the court to give certain charges to the jury. We are of opinion that the predicate for the admission of evidence of what an absent witness testified to on a former trial was insufficient, but this error was fully remedied by subsequent testimony.
The first and second charges refused were objectionable, in that they demanded an acquittal if the defendant was reasonably free from fault in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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