Watson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. M. Frank Cahalan. William Watson was convicted of murder in tbe first degree and he appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. M. Frank Cahalan. William Watson was convicted of murder in tbe first degree and he appeals. The question to the witness Mack Sewell was after he had testified to defendant’s good character: “Do you know his character for peace and quiet in that neighborhood?” Charge 2 is as follows: “If the jury believe from the evidence that William Watson had no reason to believe, and did not believe, that Arthur Jones or Walter Jones intended to take the life of John Holland, but merely intended to do Min grievous bodily harm, then the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Defendant was indicted jointly with several others for the murder of one John Holland. On defendant’s motion there was an order of severance and he was tried separately.- John Wade, one of the defendants named in the indictment, and his wife, testified willingly for the state. There was no error in receiving the wife’s testimony. A severance having been ordered (Holley v. State, 105 Ala. 100, 17 South. 102), the wife was a competent witness against her husband’s alleged accomplice so long as she was not compelled to testify to facts tending to criminate her husband. — Woods v. State, 76 Ala.…
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