Turner v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. ■ Heard before Hou. John W. Inzer. • Will Turner was convicted of shooting into a car, and he appeals.
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Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court. ■ Heard before Hou. John W. Inzer. • Will Turner was convicted of shooting into a car, and he appeals. There was not sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti to corroborate the confession in order to support a conviction of felony. —Matthews v. The State, 55 Ala. 187; Johnson v. The State, 59 Ala. 40; Winslow v; The State, 76 Ala. 47; Bowling v. The State, 98 Ala. 83; Bradford v. The State, 104 Ala. 68; Hcurden r>. The State, 109 Ala.'50. The confessions were improperly received. — Young, et al. v. The State, 68 Ala. 569; Brister v. The State, 26 Ala.…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
There is no merit in the suggestion that there was an absence of evidence tending to prove the corpus delicti. The evidence tending to show that a hole such as would be made by a bullet from a No. 41 pistol cartridge was found in the glass of a window of a passenger car forming part of a train of the Southern Railway Company, where there was no hole ‘ before, shortly after a report was heard similar to that of a pistol, furnished some basis for an inference that some one with a gun 'or pistol shot into or at a passenger car forming part of a train of that company, as alleged in the indictment.
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Parrish v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
- Braham v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1904
- Southern Railway Co. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1896
- Henson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898
- Speilberger Bros. v. BrandesAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Butler v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- Minton v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1924