Powell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before tbe Hon. ANDRew B. Moose. The appellant, John C- Powell, was indicted at the Eall term, 1850, of the Circuit Court of Coosa, for grand larceny ; to which he pleaded, not guilty, and insanity.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before tbe Hon. ANDRew B. Moose. The appellant, John C- Powell, was indicted at the Eall term, 1850, of the Circuit Court of Coosa, for grand larceny ; to which he pleaded, not guilty, and insanity. From the bill of exceptions the following facts appear : “ The State introduced a witness, who said, that he first knew the prisoner, in Chambers county, ten or twelve years since; that lie was then a boy, and going to school with witness’ boys, and was sometimes (he would not say frequently) at his house, with his boys, in passing from school to…
1Opinion of the Court
GOLBTHWAJTE, J. —
That a venire facias was not void for want of the seal of office of the court from which it issued, was directly decided by this court in the case of Maher v. The State, 1 Porter 265; and as the question is purely a technical one, involving no principle, we do not feel authorized to depart from it.
In relation to the action of the court below, in allowing the opinion of certain witnesses, as to the sanity of the prisoner, to be given in connection with the facts stated by them, we are unable to discover any error in tbe shape in which the question is presented by the record.…
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