INSURANCE - LEGAL EXECUTION OF INSURED AS A DEFENSE

Insured was convicted of murder and legally executed by the state. Plaintiff is the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. Held, no recovery on the ground that the risk of legal execution was impliedly excepted in the policy as a matter of law. Southern Life & Health Ins.

Co. v. Whitfield, (Ala. 1939) 190 So. 276.