Crumpton v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. From a conviction of manslaughter Mai Crumption appeals. The exceptions to evidence sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from Walker Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. From a conviction of manslaughter Mai Crumption appeals. The exceptions to evidence sufficiently appear in the opinion. The following charges were refused to the defendant: (1) “The court charges the jury that the defendant did not provoke or bring on the difficulty, and that if the deceased turned towards the defendant, and put his right hand in his hip pocket in such a manner as to indicate to a reasonable man that his purpose was to draw a weapon and use it, the defendant was authorized to anticipate him and shoot…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The appellant was indicted for murder in the second degree, and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.
A witness for the state, Mrs. Green, who witnessed the shooting, and who testified that just before the firing Odom (the man who was shot) was standing with his hand in his hip pocket, and seemed to- be moving-his hand, was asked on cross-examination if said Odom did not, on the day before he was killed, get a pistol from her husband. The state objected, and the objection was sustained. There was no error in sustaining this objection. There was no evidence or offer to prove that the…
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