Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baldwin. Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The defendants were tried and convicted for an assault with intent to murder, and sentenced to suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary. The material question is whether there was a legal verdict upon which the sentence of the law could be pronounced. The bill of exceptions states that after the instructions to the jury were given and the “Jury was about to retire to consider their verdict, the judge, being unwell, instructed the bailiff in charge of the jury, that if the j ury desired to bring in a verdict before morning, they could come in his charge to the hotel some three hundred yards…
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