Teague v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Crensliaw Circuit Court. Heard before the lion. J. C. Richardson. The appellant was indicted at the March term 1905 of the Crenshaw circuit court for an assault with intent to murder AY. T. Board, convicted, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. After the proof was all in the defendant moved to quash the indictment because it was not signed or found by the solicitor of the second judicial circuit. This motion was overruled.
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Appeal from Crensliaw Circuit Court. Heard before the lion. J. C. Richardson. The appellant was indicted at the March term 1905 of the Crenshaw circuit court for an assault with intent to murder AY. T. Board, convicted, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. After the proof was all in the defendant moved to quash the indictment because it was not signed or found by the solicitor of the second judicial circuit. This motion was overruled. The defendant then requested the court to give the following written charges. AA. the general charge. BB. The court charges the jury that if you…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
When Loard was being examined for the state, he was asked on cross-examination if his brother, W. T. Loard, had not been drinking that evening, and he replied that he had taken one and possibly itwo drinks. He was then asked,, if his brother was not in the habit of getting drunk when he came to town, to which question an objection by the state was sustained. The evidence called for was irrelevant to the issue in the case, unless it was shown that he was drunk on the occasion of his difficulty with defendant, in which case, possiblv, it might have been relevant, — King v. State, 90 Ala. 616, 8…
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- Holley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1883
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- Pitts v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
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- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
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