STRICKLAND v. STATE

5 Div. 712.

114 So.2d 407 (1959)

Madison STRICKLAND, alias, etc. v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 17, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker & Walker, Opelika, and R. C. Wallace, LaFayette, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The deceased, Charles Gordon Crenshaw, was fourteen years of age and the evidence is undisputed that he had no altercation with appellant when he was killed and was only trying to lift his mother, who had fainted and had been shot by appellant. A motion for a new trial was overruled.

The trial consumed three days and on the morning...

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