Legal Opinion
Cornelison v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 10, 1966No. 1 Div. 299PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HARWOOD, Justice.
Joseph P. Cornelison was tried below on an indictment charging murder in the first degree. The jury returned the verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment as life imprisonment.
The judgment was entered pursuant to the verdict of the jury. This is an appeal from that judgment.
Cornelison’s own testimony presents a bizarre picture of criminal actions by a group making their headquarters largely in Saraland, a small town a few miles north of Mobile, Alabama.
The trial tactics employed below by the defense would seem to be analogous to a plea of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Fahy v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Motes v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Boulden v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
- Wheeler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1947
- Vaughan v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1925
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Lee v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1966