DuBose v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court, of Hale. Tried before the Hon. W. C. Christian. The appellant, Ike DuBose, was indicted, tried and ■convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person.
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Appeal from the County Court, of Hale. Tried before the Hon. W. C. Christian. The appellant, Ike DuBose, was indicted, tried and ■convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person. The evidence for the State tended to show that at an '■entertainment the defendant had a pistol wrapped up in a towel, which, he carried in his hand, and unwrapping it, asked one of the State’s witnesses to deliver it 'to a certain named person; that at the time the defendant approached the witness, the pistol could not be seen, but was entirely wrapped up in a towel. The defendant’s evidence tended to…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction rendered by the county court. The proceedings appear to have been regular and in accordance with the provisions of the act of the General Assembly entitled an act “To confer additional jurisdiction' upon the county court of Hale county, and to regulate the proceedings therein,” approved February 12, 1879. — Acts, 1878-79 p. 291.
The trial was had before the judge without the intervention of a jury. No exceptions were reserved to the admission or exclusion of testimony. The only question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to…
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- Ramsey v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
- Summers v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
- Gilliam v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881