HARRIS v. STATE

4 Div. 57.

239 So.2d 331 (1970)

Margarette HARRIS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

September 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben H. Lightfoot, Luverne, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Joseph Victor Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charged murder in the first degree. Conviction was for murder in the second degree, with a penitentiary sentence of ten years.

Without dispute in the evidence, defendant fired a pistol at Frances Briggs, in the course of an argument. The shot struck an innocent bystander, Patsy Ann March, thirteen years old, resulting in her death.

If a person, shooting at another, kills a third person, his guilt is the same as...

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