Legal Opinion

Lovejoy v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 17, 1945No. 6 Div. 164PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Originally this appellant (defendant) was indicted for the offense of murder in the first degree; and, upon trial was convicted of murder in the second degree, which verdict of the jury, and the judgment of conviction operated as the acquittal of the defendant of the offense of murder in the first degree.

The appeal from the judgment of conviction, above referred to, resulted in a reversal thereof, and a remandment of the cause to the court below by this court. Lovejoy v. State,31 Ala. App. 244, 15 So.2d 300.

When the case was again called for trial in the lower court, the attention of the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1896
  2. McCoy v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930
  3. Bridges v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1933
  4. Woodward v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1926
  5. Hardaman v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1919

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Reeves v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1956
  2. Lovejoy v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
  3. William C. Holman, as Warden Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama v. Caliph WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  4. Statham v. StathamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968
  5. Turley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978

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