Cockran v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Pibe. Tried before Hon, J. McOaleb- Wiley. The appellant was indicted and convicted under section 3690 of the Revised Code for enticing away a minor. Ife appears that in 1865 Wade Hampton Turner, a minor, eleyen years of age, was, upon the application of his mother, apprenticed by the probate court to A. J. Lane. The proof offered of this, was an exemplified copy of the proceedings from the records of that court, under its seal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Pibe. Tried before Hon, J. McOaleb- Wiley. The appellant was indicted and convicted under section 3690 of the Revised Code for enticing away a minor. Ife appears that in 1865 Wade Hampton Turner, a minor, eleyen years of age, was, upon the application of his mother, apprenticed by the probate court to A. J. Lane. The proof offered of this, was an exemplified copy of the proceedings from the records of that court, under its seal. The appellant objected to the admission of this reeord, upon grounds fully stated in the opinion, but his objection was overruled. The…
1Opinion of the CourtB. E. Safeold, J.
-The appellant was convicted on an indictment for enticing away an apprentice, under section 3690 of the Revised Code.
At the trial, he objected to the introduction of evidence of a writing certified by the probate judge of Barbour county, to be a correct copy from the records in that office, to which transcript and certificate was affixed the seal of the probate court of Barbour county, with a one dollar State stamp attached and cancelled by the probate judge of said court. This transcript recited a petition by Jane Turner, a freed woman, residing in Barbour county, Alabama, to have…
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