KNIGHT v. STATE

4 Div. 101.

142 So.2d 899 (1962)

Ansley KNIGHT v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Cook, Andalusia, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Geo. D. Mentz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an automatic appeal from a conviction for murder in the first degree and sentence of death.

In bare outline, the evidence for the State tended to show that defendant entered a taxicab and rode out from town to a spot where defendant killed the taxi driver by stabbing him many times with an ice pick. The evidence for defendant tended to show self-defense.

I.

We are of opinion that the court did not err in overruling...

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