# Wilson v. State

> Supreme Court of Alabama · November 16, 1939 · 238 Ala. 496

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3252963

## Case

- **Full name:** Wilson v. State.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** November 16, 1939
- **Citations:** 238 Ala. 496; 192 So. 54; 1939 Ala. LEXIS 47
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Anderson, Thomas, Bouldin
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BROWN, Justice.
The appeal is on the record, there being-no bill of exceptions. The only question on which the record invites consultation is. the sufficiency of the judgment of convic
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tion entered on the verdict of the jury: “The defendant is adjudged guilty of Murder in the 1st Degree” followed by a sentence to the penitentiary “for the term of her natural life.”
The judgment, while it does not follow the usual and technical form “that it is considered, ordered and adjudged by the court that the defendant is guilty of murder in the first degree,” is under the authorities sufficient to warrant a judgment of sentence; which necessarily implies a judgment of conviction. Carmichael v. State, 213 Ala. 264 , 104 So. 638 ; Talbert v. State, 140 Ala. 96 , 37 So. 78 .
The record and proceeding of the Circuit Court appearing in all things regular, the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.
ANDERSON, C. J., and THOMAS and BOULDIN, JJ., concur.

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