Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayke. The appellant, Elijah Jones, was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of Felix Jones, and sentenced to be hanged.
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Appeal from tbe City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayke. The appellant, Elijah Jones, was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of Felix Jones, and sentenced to be hanged. The defendent made a motion in arrest of judgment upon the following grounds : 1st. It does not affirmatively appear from the record that the defendant was present in court, either personally or by counsel, at the time the venire was drawn containing a regular list of the jurors drawn in said cause. 2d. That the defendant was not in court, either personally or by counsel, at the time the venire…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
There was no error in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment. — Frazier v. State, ante, p. 442, where the same motion, upon the same character of record, was considered.
One Charles Glass, a witness for the State, testified that’, on the occasion of the killing, defendant was sitting in the door of his (witness’) saloon when the deceased came to where the defendant was. Witness, being in the saloon waiting upon customers, did not hear what passed between defendant and deceased; that he saw defendant get up from his chair and move from the door-out on the sidewalk, and on to a bridge…
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