SIMS v. STATE

6 Div. 999.

46 So.2d 564 (1950)

SIMS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 1, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matt Murphy, Jr., of Birmingham, for appellant.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and Jas. T. Hardin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


FOSTER, Justice.

The question on this appeal is the identity of appellant as the one who killed deceased by shooting him. Deceased was a watchman and the shooting was without provocation. Besides his confessions made to several different persons, there was further proof of the identity of his finger prints made after his arrest with some made of him on a former occasion. There is no question raised as to the competency of the witness taking the finger prints and explaining...

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