Matson v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The principal witness for the State was' one Eichelberger, who admittedly was a bootlegger of prohibited liquors and had some twenty men selling the liquor for him, and who testified before the grand jury, and on the trial of this case in an effort to gain immunity from prosecution under' section 4635 of the Code of 1923 (Michie’s Code 1928, § 4635).

During the examination of this witness, it developed that he had a grudge against Mayor Coleman, the mayor of Anniston, Frank McCraw, a police officer of the city of Anniston, and Norman Summers, chief deputy to the sheriff of…