King v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. JaMEs E. Cobb. The indictment in this cause charged the defendant with the murder of John T. Franklin; and he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.
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Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. JaMEs E. Cobb. The indictment in this cause charged the defendant with the murder of John T. Franklin; and he was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. The evidence for the State tended to show, that in November, 1879, the defendant? and the deceased went into a certain store in Rockford, in Coosa county, about the same time, .and there had a conversation, in which the defendant said that the deceased had been saying something about him ; that after talking for a minute or so, they left the store together, but in about half an hour…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The general charge of the court, on the request of the defendant, was given in writing. An exception to two sentences of the charge was taken. These, wholly disconnected from the body of the charge, are now presented for review, without a statement of all, or the substance of all the evidence which was before the jury. The objection urged in support of the first exception is, that the court assumed the only conflict in the evidence was between Sims’ testimony and that of the other witnesses. This is not the proper construction of the charge, or sentence of it, recited in the bill of…
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