Ezell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thomas M. Akrtnuton. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of his wife, Hester Ezell, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to suffer death.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thomas M. Akrtnuton. The appellant was indicted and tried for the murder of his wife, Hester Ezell, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to suffer death. The testimony for the State tended to show that on the night the said Hester Ezell was murdered, she and her husband, the defendant, quarrelled ; that after quarrelling with the deceased the defendant left her, and went to his house ; that he soon returned with a gun in his hand, which was unloaded ; that the defendant and the deceased again began…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
This is the second appeal in this case. — 102 Ala. 101. On this trial the appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to suffer death. April the 9th, 1894, was set for the trial of the case, and the sheriff was ordered to summon one hundred persons, including those summoned for the week beginning April 9th, 1894, to serve as jurors in the trial of this case. Of the thirty-six persons drawn as regular jurors for the week beginning April 9th, 1894, thirty-one were summoned, and as to five, the sheriff’s return showed they were “not found.” To complete the number ordered…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ezell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
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