CHANDLER v. STATE

7 Div. 790.

214 So.2d 306 (1968)

Leroy CHANDLER, alias Leroy Crawford v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 12, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Floyd, Gadsden, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Marlin Mooneyham, 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. He was charged with killing Amos Jackson by stabbing him with a knife.

The State's evidence tends to show that the appellant stabbed and killed Amos Jackson in front of the Bird Cage Cafe in Gadsden, Alabama, on the afternoon of September 24, 1966.

The evidence shows that earlier that day, Jackson had been over to appellant...

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