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129 Ala. 659

Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1900

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1900-11-15

<p>Appeal from the Dale Circuit Court.</p> <p>Tried before the Hon. A. A. Evans.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1954

1 state decisions

Relies on Southern Railway v. Guyton

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Decided 1900-11-15

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¶1. The appellant’ in this case, Walt Williams, was indicted, tried, and convicted for. murder in the- first degree and 'sentenced, to'.he hanged., Among the other charges requested by, the 'defendant, and which the court refused to give, was the.follpwing: “The court charges the jury that if upon considering all the evidence they have a reasonable doubt -of defendant’s guilt, arising out of any part of the evidence, they must find the defendant not guilty.” On the present appeal the court holds that this charge should have been given. Hale v. State, 122 Ala. 236.

¶2The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

¶3Opinion by

McClellan, C. J.
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