Chandler v. State

MERRILL,. Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. He was charged with killing Amos Jackson by stabbing him with a knife.

The State’s evidence tends to show that the appellant stabbed and killed Amos Jackson in front of the Bird Cage Cafe in Gadsden, Alabama, on the afternoon of September 24, 1966.

The evidence shows that earlier that day, Jackson had been over to appellant’s mother’s home threatening to kill appellant and his mother. When appellant found out about the threats he, along with Blufus Russell, - left…