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- Title: Cecil Tiner v. State Alabama
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 14, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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COLEMAN, Justice. In Geneva County, appellant was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by electrocution, for murder in the first degree of James Cuthbert Woodham by shooting him with a gun or pistol. At the time of the shooting Woodham was sheriff of that county. He was shot through the chest about 8:00 p. m. August 5, 1957, and died on the 8th day of the same month at 5:30 a. m. The evidence for the state tended to show that a two-tone Buick automobile occupied by two men was in the town of Hartford, in Geneva County, early in the evening of August 5, 1957; that the automobile stopped at the hospital in Hartford and the two men entered the hospital and carried away an iron safe containing narcotics; and that defendant was one of the men who removed the safe. Next morning the safe was found in a field a few miles west of Hartford. It had been opened and most of the narcotics removed. Some narcotics were left at the place where the safe was found. On the night the safe was taken, a two-tone Buick occupied by two men passed a filling station in the town of Geneva where the sheriff had stopped and was talking. The deceased got in his car and pursued the Buick. A few miles south of Geneva the sheriff's car overtook the Buick and both cars stopped with the sheriff's car a short distance ahead of the Buick. Deceased got out of his car, met the driver of the Buick between the cars, and both came back to the driver's side of the Buick and had a conversation. The sheriff searched the trunk of the Buick, then went around to right side of that car. Mrs. Ganey, a witness for the state, on the porch of her home about 75 yards from the car, heard a shot and went back into her house. Later she heard more shots. She did not identify defendant. The Buick drove off. The sheriff was found shot and taken to the hospital where he died. A car seat, cushion, and some narcotics were found where deceased was shot. Defendant was arrested the following morning at a filling station three and a half miles south of Pensacola. When arrested, defendant had in his mouth two fifty dollar bills with two small white tablets folded in the bills. On cross-examination defendant admitted that the tablets were morphine. A two-tone Buick car with Texas license plate was found on highway twelve miles from place of arrest. No one was present at the car. Defendant, on cross-examination admitted owning a Buick automobile introduced in evidence and shown to the jury.
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