Legal Opinion
Relf v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 7, 1957No. 5 Div. 671PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Justice.
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of rape, was sentenced for a term of thirty-five years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.
The State has filed a motion to strike the entire record and, in the alternative, has moved that the transcript of the evidence be stricken. The motion must be granted in both alternatives, and we shall discuss the reasons in each instance.
Appellant was convicted and sentenced on October 22, 1956, and on that same day, defendant gave “notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Alabama.”
Title 15, § 368, Code 1940, provides:
“Appeals in criminal…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. McDanielSupreme Court of Alabama · 1955
- Richards v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
- Pate v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
- Clark v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1956
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3Cited by64 opinions
- Cecal Bell v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- State v. MasonNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1966
- Morris v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1958
- Julius Hairston v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Conner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1973
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