Richardson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. This defendant, together with Albert Richardson and John Iloshins, was indicted for the murder of Frank L. Fosque.
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Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. This defendant, together with Albert Richardson and John Iloshins, was indicted for the murder of Frank L. Fosque. The defendant demanded a severance and was tried alone and convicted and sentenced to. be hanged The witness Townsend testified that he was sent from Selma with a lot of dogs which he obtained from the Union Star Kennel; that he had tried the dogs before and knew they were trained dogs; that he remembered the time when Dr. Fosque was said to have been killed; that he was shown the place where it was said the…
1Opinion of the CourtWeakly, C. J.
The several questions propounded to the witness Townsend as to his knowledge of the time and place where and when the deceased was said to have been killed were within the rule declared in Stoball v. State, 116 Ala. 454, 459, 23 South. 162, and were properly allowed. They were merely introductory to other questions necessary to elicit facts that were legal evidence. Frazier v. State, 116 Ala. 442, 23 South. 134 ; Green v. State, 96 Ala. 29, 11 South. 478.
There was testimony addressed to the court that the confession of the defendant was voluntarily made, and that the officer to whom it was…
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