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PEOPLES v. STATE

1 Div. 463.

56 So.2d 665 (1952)

PEOPLES v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 24, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horne & Brantley, Monroeville, and Douglas S. Webb, Atmore, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., L. E. Barton, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Chas. C. Carlton, Montgomery, of counsel), for the State.

SIMPSON, Justice.

Appeal by Mary Lee Peoples from a sentence of life imprisonment in the penitentiary and the overruling of her motion for a new trial after conviction of murder in the first degree for the killing of Raphel Peoples, an eight-year-old boy, by shooting him with a .22 caliber rifle.

The theory of the State's case was that the defendant, in a fit of anger, struck the deceased with a piece of stovewood...

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