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Title: Joe Henry Johnson v. State Alabama
Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
Release Date : January 22, 1961
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 68 KB

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SIMPSON, Justice. Joe Henry Johnson was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of Limestone County, Alabama, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. He appeals under the automatic appeal statute, Title 15, §§ 382(1)-382(13), Cum.Supp. On the day appointed for his trial, appellant withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree, and after hearing the evidence the jury returned a death verdict. Error is sought to be rested on excerpts from the oral charge of the court to which no exception was reserved. The automatic appeal statute does not authorize such a review, no exception having been seasonably taken by appellant. Reedy v. State, 246 Ala. 363, 20 So.2d 528; Scott v. State, 247 Ala. 62, 22 So.2d 529; Haygood v. State, 252 Ala. 3, 38 So.2d 593; Byrd v. State, 257 Ala. 100, 57 So.2d 388; and Walker v. State, 269 Ala. 555, 114 So.2d 402.