Cole v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Colbert County; C. P. Almon, Judge. A. W. Cole and Josie Powell were convicted of living together in a state of adultery or fornication, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J.
[1] The defendants were tried and convicted under an indictment charging that they lived together in a state of adultery or fornication. There was no positive evidence that the parties had ever had sexual intercourse, yet there was shown by the evidence a living together, a going together, and a chain of facts and circumstances from which the jury was amply justified in determining such to have been the case, and a determination to continue the same.
[2] Facts and circumstances which tend to show illicit relations between the parties anterior and subsequent to the period of time relied upon in…
2Cited by6 opinions
- Jackson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1943
- Penn v. PennCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1983
- Wilson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
- Lewis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
- Griffith v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1951
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