CHAMBERS v. STATE

4 Div. 816.

84 So.2d 342 (1955)

Sonny CHAMBERS, alias Sonny Boy, v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy L. Smith and Smith & Smith, Phenix City, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and J. Noel Baker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant was tried in the Circuit Court of Russell County under an indictment charging first degree murder. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. From the judgment of conviction and the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial, he appeals.

The physical encounter between appellant and the deceased, in which the deceased sustained knife wounds which caused his death, took place in a drinking place...

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