Legal Opinion

Gayden v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 12, 1955No. 3 Div. 722PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SIMPSON, Justice.

The writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals was granted and on a studious consideration of the case the judgment of that court will be ordered affirmed.

The opinion of the 'Court of Appeals impresses us as such an apodictical application of the fundamental principle of all free governments that the law secures to every person who is brought to trial on a charge of crime that the acts which constitute his alleged guilt shall be set forth with reasonable certainty in the indictment he is called upon to plead to, that, except for the urgent argument of counsel and the…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. United States v. CruikshankSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. Cole v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  3. Smith v. O'GRADYSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. United States v. HessSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  5. United States v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1878

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Ex Parte BirdSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  2. Ex Parte HarperSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  3. Poole v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2002
  4. Phelps v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1983
  5. State v. StraughanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956

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