Case ID: ala-app_23/html/0253-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "RICE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(123 So. 277)
    WASHINGTON v. STATE.
    (8 Div. 854.)
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    June 29, 1929.
    John H. Peach, of Sheffield,, for appellant.
    Charlie C. McCall, Attyi Gen., for the State.
   RICE, J.

Appellant was convicted of the offense, of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

The appellant did not deny shooting and killing deceased, one Watkins, but inter-' posed the plea of self-defense. Testimony on behalf of appellant tended to show that the killing grew out of a “crap game.” By a series of rulings of the trial court, testimony as to all details of this “game,” and the “quarrel” arising during the course of same, offered in behalf of appellant, was excluded or not permitted. In all these rulings there was prejudicial error.

It was competent to show all that transpired at the time of the killing, and which occurred prior thereto leading up to and explanatory of the tragedy. (Italics ours.) Minor v. State, 15 Ala. App. 556, 74 So. 99; Way v. State, 155 Ala. 52, 46 So. 273.

The other questions apparent present nothing new or novel, and will in all probability not arise in their present form on another trial. They will not be treated.

For the errors pointed out, the 3udgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.