Watts v. State
Decision Date | 10 June 1920 |
Docket Number | 5 Div. 752 |
Citation | 204 Ala. 372,86 So. 70 |
Parties | WATTS v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Chambers County; S.L. Brewer, Judge.
Lee Watts was convicted of murder in the first degree, and he appeals. Affirmed.
Hooton & Vann, of Roanoke, for appellant.
J. Q Smith, Atty. Gen., and Lamar Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and the death penalty was imposed.
The question of the sufficiency of the evidence showing the venue of the crime to have been in Chambers county was not raised by appropriate instruction, requested or given, to the jury. When no instruction is given or refused, involving an inquiry into the sufficiency of the evidence to authorize a conviction, or as to the proof of venue, the failure of the bill of exceptions to show the venue was proved, while it sets out substantially all the evidence, will not work a reversal of the judgment; no compliance with circuit court rule 35 (175 Ala. xxi) being shown. Woodson v State, 170 Ala. 87, 54 So. 191; Dentler v State, 112 Ala. 70, 75, 20 So. 592; Hubbard v State, 72 Ala. 164, 169; Justice v. State, 99 Ala. 180, 13 So. 658; Johnson v. State, 100 Ala. 55, 14 So. 627; Bowdon v. State, 91 Ala. 61, 8 So. 694; Ex parte Knight, 61 Ala. 482.
The judgment entry showed a sufficient pronouncement by the court of sentence of death upon the defendant under the law. Gray v. State, 55 Ala. 86; Wright v. State, 103 Ala. 95, 15 So. 506; Wilkinson v. State, 106 Ala. 23, 17 So. 458; Roberson v. State, 123 Ala. 55, 26 So. 645. It was as follows:
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