Supreme Court of Alabama June 30, 1920, 6 Div. 948. (Wimberly v. State)

lead-opinion

BROWN, J.

The indictment is for murder in the first degree, and charges that the appellant, “Charlie Wimberly, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, killed John Jackson by shooting him with a pistol.” The trial resulted in a conviction for murder in the first degree and the imposition of the death penalty.