Johnson v. State

In Provo v. State, 55 Ala. 222, an instruction identical with the one, the giving of which was held to be reversible error, was approved by this court; that is, “That the jury should consider the evidence of an alibi with great caution; that the law so considered it, for the reason that it was so easily manufactured; but that an alibi, when once established to the satisfaction of the jury, was as good as any other evidence [defense].” (Italics supplied.)

The holding in that case is in conflict with later decisions of this court, and should be, and is hereby, expressly overruled. The correct…