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209 Ala. 376

96 So 206

Jackson v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 3, 1923

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1923-05-03

Relies on Edwards v. State

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Decided 1923-05-03

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1952

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SOMERVILLE, J.

¶1 The plea in abatement was not sustained by the evidence, and was properly overruled by the trial court.

¶2 ' The evidence tended to show that the defendant had recently paid some social attentions to the state’s witness Cornelia Williams, and that he was more or less interested in her. It was proper, therefore, to allow her t'o -testify that, just before the killing, she had informed defendant of having had some “words” with Donaldson, the deceased ; and to testify further that defendant replied with a threat against Donaldson. Byrd v. State, ante, p. 65, 95 South. 655.

¶3 The trial judge refused to instruct the jury, at defendant’s request, that—

“A probability that some Other person may have'done the shooting is sufficient to create a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant, and therefore for his acquittal.”

¶4 This charge . was bad for several rea- ' sons, but it will suffice to say that it was properly refused because the probability referred to was not grounded upon the evidence in the case. Edwards v. State, 205 Ala. 160, 87 South. 179.

¶5 No other questions are presented by the record for review, and, finding no error in *377 the rulings of the trial court, the judgment will be affirmed.

¶6 Affirmed.

ANDERSON, O. X, and McCLEIXAN, GARDNER, and MILLER, JX, concur. SAYRE and THOMAS, JX, not sitting.
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