Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Will Jones was convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The facts as to the admission of the stenographer’s notes as to Will Harvey’s testimony sufficiently appear in the opinion. The witness J. E. King was permitted to testify that he is constable of Massey beat, and lived in that section, and had charge of the prisoner, Will Jones, after the coronor’s verdict.
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Appeal from Morgan Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas W. Wert. Will Jones was convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The facts as to the admission of the stenographer’s notes as to Will Harvey’s testimony sufficiently appear in the opinion. The witness J. E. King was permitted to testify that he is constable of Massey beat, and lived in that section, and had charge of the prisoner, Will Jones, after the coronor’s verdict. “I had a conversation with him, and did not offer him a reward or threaten him in any way, or offer any inducement to get him io talk to me…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The appellant was convicted of the crime of- murder in the second degree.
The state offered to introduce a typewritten copy of the testimony of Will Harvey, deceased, given at a former trial of this case, and taken down by a stenographer. The stenographer was sworn as a witness and identi-. fied the testimony as that taken down by her at the former trial, stating that she was not sworn at the time she took it down. The defendant objected to the intro*91duction of the evidence, on the grounds that the stenographer was not under oath, at the time of taking down the evidence, at the former trial,…
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