LAWSON, Justice.
The appellant, Floyd Coats, was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.
Elton Hill, a young man twenty-four years of age, died in a hospital in Florence, Alabama, at about 4:30 p. m. Sunday afternoon, April 25, 1948. Hill was killed by the discharge of a load from a shotgun, which entered his lower abdomen and ranged downward at "an obviously acute angle." The load stopped at the pelvis, a distance...
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