Ragland v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Morgan Law and. Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Tiíomas W. Wekt. John Ragland was indicted for murder, sentenced to be hanged, and he appeals. ' The following is charge 2: Unless you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and premeditatedly killed deceased, you cannot find him guilty of murder in the first degree, but you may find him guilty of murder in the second degree, or manslaughter in one of the degrees.
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Appeal from Morgan Law and. Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Tiíomas W. Wekt. John Ragland was indicted for murder, sentenced to be hanged, and he appeals. ' The following is charge 2: Unless you believe beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and premeditatedly killed deceased, you cannot find him guilty of murder in the first degree, but you may find him guilty of murder in the second degree, or manslaughter in one of the degrees. Because of absent witnesses defendant was entitled to have his cause continued.—Curtis v. State, 63 South. 748; Bush v.…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
The defendant, a negro was indicted, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife.
The evidence of the state shows without doubt, as does also the confession of the defendant, that he cut his wife to death on the public streets in the city of Decatur. The tragedy happened about 7 o’clock on Sunday morning.
The only assigned or probable cause of the killing was jealousy, and a belief on the part of the accused that the deceased had been unfaithful to him, that she had taken up with, and was living with, another man. There was, however, very little evidence of this fact, other…
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