Reed v. State

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

In Barnett v. State, 89 Ala. 165, 7 So. 414, 415, it is said:

“The general rule unquestionably is that the advice of counsel can afford no protection against the punitive consequences of criminal acts. Whatever the rights of a defendant are in respect to the doing of the act charged, they are available to him in defense, whether he was advised of them or not; and no amount of assurance, even from those learned in the law, of the existence of rights in the premises, which in point of fact do not exist, can justify or excuse an act otherwise criminal. The giving of such…