Layton v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of unlawfully distilling prohibited liquors, etc. We know judicially that there is a statute providing, in effect, that some one of the witnesses for the state, in this case, would receive a reward of $50 in the event the defendant was convicted. Code 1923, § 4626. Consequently it was prejudicial error for the trial court to refuse appellant’s’ written charge which we have numbered 4. Shepard v. State, 20 Ala. App. 627, 104 So. 674; Brown v. State, 18 Ala. App. 91, 90 So. 54.

The substance of the charge was not, in our opinion, sufficiently included in…