Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Jackson Johnson was convicted of murder in the first degree, and he appeals. The indictment was demurrable for failure to sufficiently describe the instrument by which the killing was accomplished.— Williams v. State, 130 Ala. 31. The state is proceeding .under section 7089, Code 1907, and the court was in error in admitting the judgment of conviction, and sentenced to death, and also the fact of commutation to life imprisonment. — Walker v.…
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Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Jackson Johnson was convicted of murder in the first degree, and he appeals. The indictment was demurrable for failure to sufficiently describe the instrument by which the killing was accomplished.— Williams v. State, 130 Ala. 31. The state is proceeding .under section 7089, Code 1907, and the court was in error in admitting the judgment of conviction, and sentenced to death, and also the fact of commutation to life imprisonment. — Walker v. State, 96 Ala. 55; Brown v. State, 47 Ala. 47; McMurray v. State, 6 Ala. 342; Gilmore v. State, 99 Ala. 158. A material…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
— The defendant, Jack Johnson, was on March 2, 1910, convicted in the circuit court of Bibb county of the offense of murder in the first degree, and, as punishment for such crime, was by said court sentenced to be hanged. He appealed from that judgment to this court; but this court affirmed the judgment of the Bibb county circuit court. • Thereupon, on the 12th day of February, 1911, the Governor of Alabama, to whom an appeal was made for executive clemency, commuted the defendant’s sentence to life imprisonment. . The effect of the commutation by the chief executive was to…
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- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1904
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