Legal Opinion

Hunt v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 9, 1946No. 3 Div. 433PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOSTER, Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death. His pleas were not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

There was no conflict as to the conduct of appellant, and no contention that he did not kill the person charged, his estranged wife, without justification. He seriously sought to sustain his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, and offered much .evidence to that effect.

In rebuttal the State' offered witnesses, •some of whom were non-expert and some qualified as expert.

A. C. Anderson was a non-expert who for a…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Parrish v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
  2. Ford v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  3. George v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  4. Jones v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1944
  5. Cooper v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Marsden v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
  2. Lee v. County Ct. of Erie CountyNew York Court of Appeals · 1971
  3. Aaron v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
  4. Commonwealth v. ButlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961
  5. Hubbard v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968

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