ROGERS v. STATE

3 Div. 755.

88 So.2d 685 (1956)

Edward ROGERS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. H. Walden and Geo. W. Cameron, Jr., Montgomery, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and J. Noel Baker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


SIMPSON, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree under an indictment charging him that he killed McLendon Tolbert by setting him on fire, thus causing his death. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at death. From the sentence imposed by the court the case comes here under the Automatic Appeal Statute, Tit. 15, § 382(1) et seq., cum. pocket parts, p. 122 et seq. Consistent with our duty, we have searched the...

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