Brewer v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Talladega City Court. Heard before Hon. G. K. Miller. Charles E. Brewer was convicted of murder and be appeals. Tbe oral charge of tbe court was invasive of tbe province of tbe jury.- — •Young v. The State, 125 G-a. 584; Brown v. The State, 72 Miss. 997; Allison v. ü. S., 160 U. S. 204; Hickory v. U. S., 169 U. S. 409. The court erred in refusing the charges as to good character. — Edgington v. Administrator, 164 ü.
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Appeal from Talladega City Court. Heard before Hon. G. K. Miller. Charles E. Brewer was convicted of murder and be appeals. Tbe oral charge of tbe court was invasive of tbe province of tbe jury.- — •Young v. The State, 125 G-a. 584; Brown v. The State, 72 Miss. 997; Allison v. ü. S., 160 U. S. 204; Hickory v. U. S., 169 U. S. 409. The court erred in refusing the charges as to good character. — Edgington v. Administrator, 164 ü. S. 561; Shropshire v. The State, 81 Ga. 581. The defendant had no' sufficient cooling time. — 52-Ala. 348; 58 Ala. 406; 71 Ala. 481; 85 Ala. 326; 99 Ala. 166; 102 Ala.…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
The annals of this court will hardly reveal a more malicious, willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder than is here shown by this record. Defendant and deceased were members of the hauling crew of workmen engaged on the construction work of the A., B. & A. Railroad Company. ■ The crew had been to *69Talladega to do some heavy hauling (of machinery, etc.) and on the 10th day of December, 1907, having finished this hauling, had started back, with empty wagons, to the camp, which was some 10 miles west of Talladega. One Eager was foreman of the crew, and deceased was snb-foreman. Just before…
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