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COLVIN v. STATE

6 Div. 406.

70 So.2d 650 (1953)

COLVIN v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 11, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beddow & Jones and G. Ernest Jones, Jr., Birmingham, and Skidmore & Finnell, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and Robt. Straub and Paul T. Gish, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.

HARWOOD, Judge.

James Ludwig Colvin and Luther Jerome Veazey were students enrolled in the University of Alabama. Each man had seen military service in World War II, Colvin in the Marine Corps, and Veazey in the Navy.

For several weeks they had shared an apartment, and until the occurrence about which this case centers the men had apparently been close friends.

On Easter Sunday, 1951 Colvin shot Veazey to death on a street in Tuscaloosa. Colvin was...

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