Hodge v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Feom: tbe Circuit Court of Escambia. Tried before the Hon. JOHN R. TysoN. The appellant was tried at the Spring Term 1893, upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Rose Stanback.
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Feom: tbe Circuit Court of Escambia. Tried before the Hon. JOHN R. TysoN. The appellant was tried at the Spring Term 1893, upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Rose Stanback. At the trial it was shown by witnesses for the State that a number of persons went to the house of Rose Stanback immediately after she was shot and killed ; that they saw shot holes in the door steps where she was lying, and determined from them the direction the shot were fired: that near the rear of a store-liouse, in that direction, were found the tracks of a human being; that they were peculiar, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
It is common knowledge that dogs may be trained to follow the tracks of a human being with considerable certainty and accuracy. The evidence in this case showed that a dog thus trained was within a very short time after the homicide put upon the tracks of the person toward whom all the circumstances strongly pointed as the guilty agent, and that the dog as if following these tracks or “trailing” went to the house of the defendant. It was also in evidence, by several witnesses, that the tracks found at the *12scene of the homicide were followed by them thence to the house of the defendant, being…
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