Crist v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ebbor to the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKikstry. The plaintiff in error, Nathan H. Crist, was indicted in the City Court of Mobile, for the murder of Theodore Nye. On the trial, a bill of exceptions was signed and sealed at the instance of the prisoner, and made part of the record by the court.
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Ebbor to the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKikstry. The plaintiff in error, Nathan H. Crist, was indicted in the City Court of Mobile, for the murder of Theodore Nye. On the trial, a bill of exceptions was signed and sealed at the instance of the prisoner, and made part of the record by the court. It is in the following language: “ On the trial of this cause, it appeared in evidence, that on the 25th day of February, 1852, at about ten o’clock A. M., two persons arrived at the Eutaw House, in Mobile, and wrote their names on the register of the house, one as Theodore…
1Opinion of the CourtLigon, J.
— I do not think there is any error in the record, so far as the bill of exceptions discloses the proceeding of the court below.
The facts set out show, that the several registers of the Eu-taw House, Tuft’s Hotel, and the Exchange Hotel were permitted to go to the jury without objection, accompanied by parol proof which tended to show that the names of “Nathan H. Crist,” on the first, of “N. P. Coleman,” on the second, and “ B. E. Tooker,” on the third, were severally written on them by the plaintiff in error, and that these were the names which he assumed in the several cities of New…
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