Supreme Court of Alabama May 14, 1920, 5 Div. 741. (Walker v. State)

lead-opinion

McCLELLAN, j.

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The appellant was •convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The indictment was returned on October 15, 1919. The amendment, by the act approved September 29, 1919 (Gen. Acts, pp. 1039-1042), of the jury law approved August 31, 1909 (Acts, pp. 305, 317, et seq.) was the law governing the special venire for appellant’s trial.