Wilson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. J. M. Carmichael. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of Ed Jackson, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Upon the trial of the cause, as is shown by the bill of exceptions, the State introduced evidence tending to show that the defendant had killed the deceased, Ed Jackson, by shooting him with a pistol.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. J. M. Carmichael. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of Ed Jackson, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. Upon the trial of the cause, as is shown by the bill of exceptions, the State introduced evidence tending to show that the defendant had killed the deceased, Ed Jackson, by shooting him with a pistol. Only two rulings of the trial court are brought before this court for review, which are based upon exceptions reserved to the rulings of the trial…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of one Ed' Jackson, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of twenty years. ■ The case comes before this court on exceptions taken on the trial to the admission of evidence.
The killing was in the city of Girard, about 12 o’clock at night. On the next day a justice of the peace, acting in the .capacity of -coroner, proceeding according to- the statute, held an inquest to ascertain if the deceased came to-his death by the unlawful act of another, and if such was the fact, who was the guilty…
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