Loper v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Washington County; Ben. D. Turner, Judge. Quinnie Loper was convicted of murder, first degree, and appealed. The ease should be reversed, on the authority of Beech, 203 Ala. 529, §4 South. 753. Wide latitude is allowed in proving conspiracy, and the court was not in error in any of its rulings. 82 South. 574 ; 77 South. 979; 98 Ala. 72, 13 South. 530; 12 Corpus Juris, 634.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
[1] In Beech v. State, 203 Ala. 529, 84 South. 753, wherein Beech was separately tried under a joint indictment with the defendant in this case and another for the same murder, it was held that'the evidence failed to show prima facie a conspiracy between Beech and the others for the commission of the murder, and hence that the trial court erred in the admission in evidence of their declarations made in contemplation and promotion of the murder plan. The evidence offered by the state in the instant case to show a conspiracy existing between defendant and the others, at the time they made the…
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