Logan v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Justice..The appellant prosecutes this appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence of death. It is shown from the evidence that he ambushed the deceased and killed him in his own home with a shotgun, thinking he was a different person.
Counsel for defendant have very diligently presented all questions raised by the record both in oral argument and in able and comprehensive brief, but we are persuaded that no substantial error to the prejudice of the accused intervened pending trial.
We first will observe that no error is shown by the refusal of the court to…
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