Grubbs v. State

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for murder in the second degree with punishment fixed at 25 years’ imprisonment.

Defendant shot the deceased, one Henry Horton, several times with a pistol while deceased was standing on the streets of Albany, Ala., in front of the Central National Bank. The defendant sought to justify- upon the doctrine of self-defense. The evidence for the state tended to show that deceased, at the time he was killed, made no hostile demonstration towards defendant, while the defendant testified that deceased “threw his hand into his pocket, and commenced drawing…