Miles v. State

CLAYTON, Justice.

This case is before us by virtue of the Automatic Appeal Statute, §§ 382(1) to 382(13), Tit. 15, Code of Alabama, 1940, Cum.Pocket Part.

*671Appellant’s counsel have furnished us with an excellent brief which discusses every point worthy of consideration. Under our view of the case, however, only one of these need be treated in this opinion, the others relating to matters either within the discretion of the trial court, or which are unlikely to arise on another trial.

Upon being called on the morning after the alleged offense, the sheriff and his brother, the chief deputy, began an…