HAMBY v. STATE

5 Div. 488.

47 So.2d 218 (1950)

HAMBY v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Sanford Mullins, Alexander City, and Sam W. Oliver, Dadeville, for appellant.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and Jas. L. Screws, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


FOSTER, Justice.

It is true that generally a killing by the intentional use of a deadly weapon carries a presumption of malice and of unlawfulness, but not so if the evidence which proves the killing rebuts the presumption. Hadley v. State, 55 Ala. 31; Hornsby v. State, 94 Ala. 55, 10 So. 522; Cooley v. State, 233 Ala. 407, 171 So. 725; McDowell v. State, 238 Ala. 482, 483, 191 So. 894.

We think in this case that the evidence which proves the killing rebuts...

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