Legal Opinion
Walker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 6, 1956No. 6 Div. 998PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Justice.
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama.
The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at 99 years in the penitentiary.
The defendant did not seasonably file a brief in this Court, but that is not essential to our consideration of an appeal in a criminal case. Johnson v. State, 257 Ala. 644, 60 So.2d 818; Hymes v. State, 209 Ala. 91, 95 So. 383.
It has been said that § 389, Tit. 15, Code of 1940, when construed in pari materia with…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Ex Parte GrimmettSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- McKee v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1949
- Hines v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
- Payne v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
- Logan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Gautney v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1969
- Murrell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1961
- Carpenter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1981
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