Legal Opinion
Connell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 7, 1974No. 5 Div. 133PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.
The homicide, which is the subject of this indigent appeal, was committed in Lee County wherein a grand jury indicted and a petit jury duly and lawfully impanelled convicted the appellant-defendant of murder in the first degree with punishment fixed at life-imprisonment.
The record contains three volumes totaling 479 pages, all of which the writer of this opinion has read in his search for errors, as mandated by Title 15, § 389, Recompiled Code 1958. We are not convinced that the rulings of the trial court were free of prejudicial error as will be…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Williams v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Peters v. KiffSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Giddens v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1976
- Jordan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
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