Dickey v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the County Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. "William; RichakdsoN. The indictment in this ease charged, in the general form prescribed by the statute (Code, p. 994, No. 27), that the defendant played at a game of cards at one of the prohibited places.
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From the County Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. "William; RichakdsoN. The indictment in this ease charged, in the general form prescribed by the statute (Code, p. 994, No. 27), that the defendant played at a game of cards at one of the prohibited places. On the trial, as the bill of exceptions states, a witness for the prosecution testified, among other things, that he saw the defendant, with two other persons, “ playing cards on Sunday, on a ferry-boat at a public licensed' ferry where toll was taken, on Paint-Rock river, which is a navigable stream ; that the river was very high,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebyille, J.
The general charge given by. the court in this case asserts several distinct legal propositions, some of which are certainly correct. The exception reserved is to the whole charge, and not to any particular part of it which is specified as being obnoxious to objection. Such exceptions have frequently been condemned by this court as defective, and they will not, therefore, be considered, except in cases where every proposition announced in the general charge is erroneous.—South & North Ala. R. R. Co. v. Sullivan, 59 Ala. 272; Gray v. State, 63 Ala. 66.
The indictment in this case charges the…
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- South & North Alabama Railroad v. SullivanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- Gray v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- Mills v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852
- Glass v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1857
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1869
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