CHASTAIN v. STATE

7 Div. 113.

54 So.2d 623 (1951)

CHASTAIN v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. G. Pilcher, Martin & Hinton and H. C. Orme, Jr., all of Gadsden, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and Thos. F. Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Judge.

On an indictment charging murder in the first degree, the defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at 10 years imprisonment in the penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction and the action of the court in overruling the motion for a new trial this appeal is prosecuted.

We see no necessity for detailing the testimony. The evidence is without dispute that appellant killed Rowan Cowan, his daughter's sweetheart...

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