Shelton v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lauderdale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. B. Almon. In this case, 'the appellant Dee Shelton was tried under an indictment charging him with the murder of William, alias Mark Hammonds, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for. life. The evidence tended to show that on a Sunday morning the family of the deceased went 'to church, leaving him at home.
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Appeal from Lauderdale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. E. B. Almon. In this case, 'the appellant Dee Shelton was tried under an indictment charging him with the murder of William, alias Mark Hammonds, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for. life. The evidence tended to show that on a Sunday morning the family of the deceased went 'to church, leaving him at home. On their return, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they found him dead, and it was shown that his death was caused by a blow on the head with a blunt instrument, and by a pistol shot through the head. It was shown that about…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The oral charge of the court did not require the jury to absolutely reconcile the testimony which was in hopeless conflict, but instructed them that *111if they could not reconcile it, it. was for them to say which they would believe. And we must consider the whole sentence from which the excepted part is taken before putting the trial court in error, if said sentence as a whole states the law correctly. — Brown v. State, 38 So. Rep. 268. The correctness of this charge is not questioned in the cases of Sherrill v. State, 138 Ala. 3, and Clare v. State, 111 Ala. 50, as the charges in those cases…
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