Tennison v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. Fletcher Tennison was convicted of murder and he appeals.
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Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. Fletcher Tennison was convicted of murder and he appeals. Section 32 of the jury law, Acts, Special Session, 1909, page 319, provides “that the court in a capital case must make an order commanding the sheriff to summon not less than fifty nor more than one hundred persons, including those drawn and summoned on the regular juries for the week set for the trial of the case, and must cause a list of the names specially drawn, and those summoned for the week to be served upon the defendant; and the court is then further…
1Opinion of the Court
MAYFIELD, T.
Appellant ivas indicted, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment, for the murder of Arthur Slaton, by shooting him with a gun.
This is the second appeal. Some of the questions raised on this appeal, ás to the admission of evidence touching the hearing of voices in the house and the crying of a woman, were presented on the former appeal and decided adversely to appellant; and we now adhere to that decision. There are other questions as to the admissibility of evidence against the accused, which were not presented on the former appeal.
*92The state was allowed on this trial, over…
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