Legal Opinion

Cole v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided June 8, 1920No. 8 Div. 716PublishedCited by 6 opinions

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

  1. Jackson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1943
  2. Penn v. PennCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1983
  3. Wilson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
  4. Lewis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
  5. Griffith v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1951

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