Lang v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The appellant, James Lester Lang, was indicted by the grand jury of Morgan County, Alabama, for murder in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict convicting him of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at ninety-nine years in the State penitentiary. The victim was Mrs. Christine Haynie, about thirty-seven years of age, who left surviving her a husband and six children. It was not shown that appellant and Mrs. Haynie were acquainted, and the verdict is rested on evidence entirely circumstantial.

The Bee Line Highway runs north and south in Morgan County…