Jordan v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to suffer death by electrocution.

The indictment charges that “James Jordan, alias James Austin unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Mrs. -O. A. Allen by striking her with a rock,” etc.

The appellant’s first contention is 'that the ■state’s evidence wholly failed to prove the corpus delicti, and, therefore, the court erred in refusing the affirmative charge requested by him in writing.

The state’s witness Lena Mae Allen testified: “My name is Miss Lena Mae Allen, and I live on Red Mountain at the Birmingham Trap…