Smith v. State

The defendant offered evidence of.an alibi. The court charged the jur}'' as follows: “The defendant has set up an alibi as a defense in this case. An alibi involves the impossibility of the defendant’s presence at the scene of the offense at the time of its commission; and the range of the evidence, in respect to time and place, must be such as reasonably to exclude the possibility of his presence. In order to constitute a complete alibi, it should appear that it was reasonably impossible that the defendant could have been at the place where the crime was committed, if one was committed. If…