Jones v. State
| Decision Date | 14 June 1923 |
| Docket Number | 7 Div. 358. |
| Parties | JONES v. STATE. |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Clay County; W. L. Longshore, Judge.
Addie Jones was convicted of murder in the second degree and appeals. Affirmed.
C. W McKay, of Ashland, for appellant.
Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., for the State.
Appellant killed her husband, George Jones, by shooting him with a gun was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and appeals. She interposed the plea of self-defense. The shooting occurred in the home of the defendant and her husband. In charge 3, given for the defendant, the jury was instructed that under such circumstances no duty to retreat rested upon defendant, and it therefore clearly appears that charge 4 refused to defendant, was covered by said given charge 3.
There was exception to that portion of the oral charge defining manslaughter in the first degree. Upon exception being reserved, the court discovering the error or inaccuracy, immediately corrected the same and correctly defined manslaughter in the first degree in his charge to the jury. No error for reversal here appears.
Refused charge 2 was not predicated upon the evidence in the case. Edwards v. State, 205 Ala. 160, 87 So. 179.
As to charge 5, refused to the defendant, counsel cites Glass v. State, 201 Ala. 441, 78 So. 819. The charge in question however, omits any hypothesis as to reasonable belief or any reference to reasonable cause for such belief, and is not analogous to those charges which found approval in the Glass Case. The charge may properly be condemned as confusing or misleading in the manner of its statement. Moreover, the trial court in the oral charge correctly stated to the jury the principle of law upon which this charge sought instruction.
It was the theory of the state that defendant shot her husband while he was on the bed asleep, and the statement of the solicitor in his argument, to which objection was interposed, was doubtless merely in support of the insistence there was deliberation, and rested upon reasonable inferences to be drawn from the state's evidence.
The defendant in writing waived a special venire, and no question concerning the jury appears to have been presented upon the trial of the cause. There is nothing in the record to support the third ground of the motion for a new trial, and nothing here presented thereby for review.
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