Dixon v. State

GOODWYN, Justice.

We granted certiorari on the State’s petition to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Dixon v. State, Ala. App., 115 So.2d 262, rendered after our reversal and remandment of the case to that court in a prior certiorari proceeding (Dixon v. State, Ala.Sup., 115 So.2d 2691). On remandment, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to give the following written charge requested by the defendant, viz.:

“B-l I charge you gentlemen of the jury that under the law the person or officer furnishing the proof in a case of…