Banks v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
FkoM the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. H. C. SpeaKE. The indictment in this case charged the defendants, Taylor Banks and Frances "Wood, persons of African descent, with the murder of Turner Wood, “by shooting him with a shot-gun.”
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FkoM the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. H. C. SpeaKE. The indictment in this case charged the defendants, Taylor Banks and Frances "Wood, persons of African descent, with the murder of Turner Wood, “by shooting him with a shot-gun.” The defendants were separately arraigned, and each pleaded not guilty; and issue being joined on that plea, and a joint trial had, each of them was convicted of murder in the first degree; Taylor Banks being sentenced to death by hanging, and Frances Wood to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The judgment of the court, as set out in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The appellants, in due form of law, by a grand jury legally drawn, selected, summoned and organized, as is shown by the record, were indicted for the murder of Turner Wood; and upon trial before a petit jury, legally constituted and organized, they have been found guilty ; and by the sentence of the court, pursuing the verdict of the jury, the one has been sentenced to death, and the other to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The first objection taken to the regularity of the proceedings is, that it is not shown affirmatively that the defendants were present in court when the ver-,…
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