Jordan v. State, 6 Div. 86.
Decision Date | 10 June 1932 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 86. |
Citation | 142 So. 665,225 Ala. 350 |
Parties | JORDAN v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Rehearing Denied June 30, 1932.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; H. P. Hefllin, Judge.
James Jordan, alias James Austin, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Jim Gibson, of Birmingham, for appellant.
Thos E. Knight, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Jas. L. Screws, Asst. Atty Gen., for the State.
The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to suffer death by electrocution.
The indictment charges that "James Jordan, alias James Austin unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed Mrs C. A. Allen by striking her with a rock," etc.
The appellant's first contention is that the state's evidence wholly failed to prove the corpus delicti, and therefore, the court erred in refusing the affirmative charge requested by him in writing.
The state's witness Lena Mae Allen testified:
Mr. Moore testified that he was the family physician of C. A. Allen; that when he reached Mrs. Allen, soon after her injury, there were contusions and abrasions on her face and head; that the "eyes were swollen closed, and her features were unrecognizable"; that there were many contusions on her chest and her lungs were full of blood when he picked her up; that he carried her to the hospital and had X-ray views taken of her head, and that these X-rays showed that her skull was fractured; and that she died within thirty-six hours after she was carried to the hospital.
This evidence, with the legitimate inferences which it was the province of the jury to draw, if believed by them beyond a reasonable doubt, shows the death of the person alleged to have been killed, and that said death was caused by criminal agency, as alleged in the indictment-the corpus delicti. Shelton v. State, 217 Ala. 465, 117 So. 8; Ratliff v. State, 212 Ala. 410, 102 So. 621; Watson v. State, 217 Ala. 164, 115 So. 101; Daniels v. State, 12 Ala. App. 119, 68 So. 499; 13 R. C. L. 736, §§ 40-42; 7 R. C. L. 774, §§ 2-4.
This evidence also goes to identify the appellant as the culprit. The affirmative charge requested by the defendant was, therefore, refused without error.
The appellant's next contention is that the court, over timely objection, allowed the state to offer evidence going to show that immediately following the assault on the mother and little sister of the witness Lena Mae, rendering them unconscious, the appellant raped the witness and stabbed her with a knife, and the attending circumstances of the crime.
In Miller et al. v. State, 130 Ala. 1, 30 So. 379, 383, an appeal from a conviction for murder, the court ruled: Powell v. State, 219 Ala. 557, 123 So. 34.
The evidence held to have been erroneously admitted in Oakley v. State, 135 Ala. 15, 33 So. 23, was not the...
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