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Title: John Wesley King v. State Alabama
Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
Release Date : January 14, 1957
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 66 KB

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STAKELY, Justice. John Wesley King (appellant) was indicted for the offense of murder in the first degree. Trial was had on
his plea of not guilty. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at imprisonment for life in the penitentiary.
A motion for a new trial was overruled. The court sentenced the appellant accordingly and from such judgment and sentence
this appeal has come to this court. John Wesley King and the deceased, Jim King, were brothers. They were both bachelors and lived together in May 1955 and for
several years prior thereto near the Hendricks Community about ten miles northeast of Oneonta in Blount County, Alabama. Their
home was near the Little Warrior River. They lived alone. The deceased was about seventy-nine years of age.