Long v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Lee Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. Lum Duke. Lee Long was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and he appeals. The question to the witness Lucius Pope and his answer, thereto should have been excluded. — Watkins v. The State, 89 Ala. 82; Fuller v. The State, 117 Ala. 86; McKee v. The State, 82 Ala. 32. The court should have sustained objection to the argument of the solicitor, and should have excluded it. — Dollar v. The State, 99 Ala. 236.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
From anything that appears from the bill of exceptions the statement of Lucius Pope, a wiitness for the state, that “I saw the place where the knife stabbed him,” may have been in response to a' question clearly seeking to elicit such a statement. It not appearing that the question calling for the statement was objected to, it cannot be said that the defendant was entitled to have his motion to exclude that statement sustained, conceding that the testimony would have been subject to objection duly interposed.
The court was not in error in sustaining the objection to the question of the…
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