Case ID: ala-app_14/html/0118-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "EVANS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Willingham v. The State.
    Manslaughter.
    (Decided June 6, 1916.
    72 South. 213.)
    Homicide; Threats by Others. — Where there was no evidence to show “that a witness was connected in any wise with the killing, attempts to elicit evidence as to threats made by such witness against deceased, were improper and objection thereto properly sustained.
    Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court.
    Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer.
    Joe Willingham was convicted of manslaughter and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Stell Blake, for appellant. W. L. Martin, Attorney General, for the State.
   EVANS, J.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. We find no reversible error in the record proper. The only exceptions reserved by the bill of exceptions relate to the ruling of the trial court upon questions propounded to witness Tom Willingham by defendant’s counsel, inquiring whether witness had heard one Ben Carter, another witness, make threats against, deceased. There was no evidence to show that Ben Carter was connected in any wise with the killing, and the only suggestion thereof is in the implication of questions excepted to. The judgment of the court below is affirmed on the following .authorities: Alston v. State, 63 Ala. 178; Walker v. State, 139 Ala. 56, 35 South. 1011; Toliver v. State, 142 Ala. 3, 38 South. 801.

Affirmed.