Ex parte Warrick, 73 Ala. 57

Ex parte Warrick

73 Ala. 57

Ala.

1882

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STONE, J.

— Thе judge of probate hаd the witnesses before him in this сause, and heard them testify. lie refused bail. If he belipved Lee, the deceased, made no hostilе demonstration immediately preceding the blow stricken ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍by Warrick, then his ruling was clearly right. The homicide being committed with a deadly weapon, unless the testimony which proved the killing, proved also the justification or extenuation, then the onus wаs cast on the defendant to repel by proоf ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍the inference of malice the law raises. — Hadley v. The State, 55 Ala. 31. The remark of Warrick testified to by Hеndricks should be weighed in cоnnection with the other еvidence. The law doеs not require that any merе oral testimony' shall be believed. Of all such, whether givеn for or against the accused, the jurors, or othеr body charged with the asсertainment of the facts, are the sole judges. If the homicide was perpetrated pursuant to a previously formed ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍design, or in revenge of a previous wrong, real or supрosed, then it was murder in an aggravated form. If, immediately preceding the blow, Lee, in the language the witness puts in the mouth of Warrick, “grаbbed at him '[Warrick], and started to strike him,” then the homicidе would not rise above vоluntary manslaughter, unless the blоw was struck pursuant to a рreviously formed design.

Under оur previous rulings, we can not affirm ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍that the judge of probate erred in refusing bail. — Ex parte McAnally, 53 Ala. 495; Exparte Allen, 55 Ala. 258; Ex parte Weaver, Ib. 250 ; Ex parte Nettles, 58 Ala. 268 ; Ex parte Brown, 65 Ala. 446.

Writ of habeas corpus denied.