Franklin v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Fbom the Circuit Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Thos. A. Walker. The record shows that on the 24th day of September, 1855, the grand jury, after being duly organized at the Fall term, 1855, of the circuit court of Walker county, returned into that court an indictment, charging the plaintiff in error, in due form, with the murder of Absalom Boon,; that, at the time it was so returned into court, it was endorsed “ a true bill”, and the endorsement was signed by “James…
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Fbom the Circuit Court of Walker. Tried before the Hon. Thos. A. Walker. The record shows that on the 24th day of September, 1855, the grand jury, after being duly organized at the Fall term, 1855, of the circuit court of Walker county, returned into that court an indictment, charging the plaintiff in error, in due form, with the murder of Absalom Boon,; that, at the time it was so returned into court, it was endorsed “ a true bill”, and the endorsement was signed by “James L. Éoyd, foreman of the grand jury”; that, on the same day, the clerk of that court entered on it the following…
1Opinion of the CourtBice, C. J.
Confessions of guilt, voluntarily made by a-person, are admissible evidence against him, although, they were made after he was arrested, and whilst his hands were tied with a rope and his feet with a bridle. — Seaborn v. The State, 20 Ala. R. 15 ; Brister v. The State, 26 Ala. R. 107.
Where the trial and conviction occur at the term at which the indictment was found, the ■ court may, at any time during that term, as well after as before the conviction, cause its clerk to endorse on the indictment, “filed,” and to date such endorsement according to the fact, and to sign it; and may also cause…
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