Legal Opinion
Tiner v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided July 14, 1960No. 4 Div. 949PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*257COLEMAN, Justice.
In Geneva County, appellant was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by electrocution, for murder in the first degree of James Cuthbert Woodham by shooting him with a gun or pistol. At the time of the shooting Woodham was sheriff of that county. He was shot *258through the chest about 8:00 p. m. August 5, 1957, and died on the 8th day of the same month at 5 :30 a. m.
The evidence for the state tended to show that a two-tone Buick automobile occupied by two men was in the town of Hartford, in Geneva County, early in the evening of August 5, 1957; that the automobile…
2Cases cited48 opinions
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
- Acklen's v. HickmanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- Hussey v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Maund v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950
- Godau v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Sanders v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
- Payne v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1972
- Tiner v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
- Dannelly v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
- Boutwell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
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