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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, During December Terms, 1885-86, Vol. 80 The defendant introduced evidence tending to show that, while engaged in playing a game of ball, a short while prior to the time covered by the foregoing testimony, he dropped a large wooden pipe and picked it up and put it in the hip pocket referred to; that said pipe was a large wood pipe, and had a large stem which was crooked. There were, as shown by the bill of exceptions, two witnesses for the de fendant, who swore that the defendant dropped his pipe while playing ball and put it'in his hip-pocket, and one witness swore he had it in his side - pocket and that he picked it up at another place. The defendant himself swore that he had no pistol about his person on that day. The material portion of the charge given to the jury, and excepted to by the defendant, is set out in the opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
