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JONES v. STATE

4 Div. 747.

70 So.2d 629 (1954)

JONES et al. v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 25, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Cecil Curtis, W. R. Belcher, Bowen Brassell and Roy H. Phillips, Phenix City, for appellants.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., Robt. Straub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Owen Bridges, of counsel, for the State.

MERRILL, Justice.

Albert Lee Jones and Arthur Lee Grimes were jointly indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment charged that these two defendants "unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Mrs. Mattie V. Pearce, by shooting her with a gun or pistol." They were placed on trial and found guilty as charged and sentenced to death in the electric chair. A motion for a new trial was denied and the appellants now prosecute an appeal to this...

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