Legal Opinion

Street v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided August 13, 1957No. 8 Div. 751PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment, omitting the formal parts, charged in count 1 that appellant, .“Willfully set fire to or burned, a dry cleaning building, the property of Maurice Blackwell and Sara Blackwell, not within the curtilage of a dwelling.”

The charge in count 2 is that appellant wilfully set fire to, burned, or aided or procured the burning of “a shop, to-wit: A dry cleaning establishment the property of another, viz. Maurice Blackwell and Sara Blackwell,” etc.

The defendant was by a jury found guilty as charged, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of four years.

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2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Wyatt v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1950
  2. Littlefield v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1952
  3. Welch v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1955
  4. Coats v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952
  5. Cunningham v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1915

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Street v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
  2. Clark v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1975
  3. Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  4. O'NEAL v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
  5. Sims v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982

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