Wise v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Geneva Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Pearce. Will Wise was convicted of murder in the second degree, and be appeals. The witness Brunson testified that as mayor he held an inquest that night, and that the defendant was present and sworn and testified at the inquest.
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Appeal from Geneva Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Pearce. Will Wise was convicted of murder in the second degree, and be appeals. The witness Brunson testified that as mayor he held an inquest that night, and that the defendant was present and sworn and testified at the inquest. The state then asked the following questions: “State to the jury what he said, if anything, about being down at Mrs. Griffin’s at all that night [Mrs. Griffin being the person charged to have been killed] ” Over the objection of defendant, the witness was permitted to state: “He first said that he had not been…
1Opinion of the CourtPelham, J.
The appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree, tried, and convicted of murder in the second degree.
In the trial court the defendant made a motion, that it strenuously insisted upon in briefs filed here, to quash the indictment, based on the misconduct of an attorney, -employed to assist in the prosecution, going before the grand jury while it was engaged in deliberating on the case. It is alleged as grounds for the motion that the attorney made improper statements to the grand jury that influenced or induced the.grand jury to return the indictment against the defendant. This…
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- Garrett v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1884
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