Nabors v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. Leroy F. Box. The defendant in this case, Green Nabors, a freedman, was indicted for an assault on Celia Alexander, a colored woman, with the intent to murder her ; was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years.
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From the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. Leroy F. Box. The defendant in this case, Green Nabors, a freedman, was indicted for an assault on Celia Alexander, a colored woman, with the intent to murder her ; was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. On the trial, as appears from the bill of exceptions, the prosecutrix testified to the commission of the assault on her, and identified the defendant as her assailant; said that she knew him, that the assault was committed about the middle of the day, near a spring where she was washing, and that the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
— When a witness is impeached by proving his reputation for truth and veracity to be bad, the jury are the sole judges of the credence to which his testimony is entitled, on consideration of his demeanor on the stand, the consistency of his statements with the testimony of other witnesses, and of all the facts and circumstances brought out, subjected to all the tests by which the credibility and sufficiency of oral testimony may be determined. If im*10pea,died, and the jury believe him unworthy of credit, they have the right to disregard his testimony altogether, or to give it the weight which…
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