Legal Opinion

Ex Parte State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 13, 1923No. 4 Div. 109PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.

In its opinion on application for rehearing the Court of Appeals held the giving of charge 1 at the request of the state was error to reverse — this upon the ground that the' charge fails to base or hypothesize the jury’s conclusion upon belief “from the evidence.” We have heretofore decided that trial courts may without error refuse such charges (Davis v. State, 188 Ala. 59, 66 South. 67, referred to in Edwards v. State, 205 Ala. 160, 87 South. 179), but reasons why error should not be predicated of the giving of such charges, when in other respects they state the law of the case correctly,…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  2. Jordan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
  3. Ala. Great Southern Railroad v. FrazierSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
  4. Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914
  5. McClellan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1897

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. Payne v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
  2. Kelly v. HanwickSupreme Court of Alabama · 1934
  3. Birmingham Belt R. Co. v. NelsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
  4. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. RattraySupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  5. Cain v. SkillinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929

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