Ware v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The evidence in this case, without dispute or conflict, discloses that the homicide complained of in this case was committed on' Christmas eve night 1937, at a dance in Centerville, Bibb County, Alabama. On said occasion this appellant admittedly shot and killed Crawford Collier, the deceased named in the indictment, with a pistol. During the same encounter he 'also seriously wounded State witness Jim Chisolm, by shooting him three times with a pistol.

At the March 1938 session of the circuit court the grand, jury returned an indictment against this appellant charging…