BOSARGE v. STATE

1 Div. 903.

139 So.2d 302 (1961)

Edward Sharpe BOSARGE v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund R. Cannon, Jr., and Alton R. Brown, Jr., Mobile, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Robt. M. Hill, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


GOODWYN, Justice.

Appellant, Edward Sharpe Bosarge, was convicted in the Mobile County circuit court of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution. The indictment charged that he, "unlawfully and with malice aforethought, killed Dorothy Grace Cash by striking her with a hammer, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama." He entered pleas of "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity." His appeal here is under the provisions...

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