Lodge v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cherokee. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cherokee. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person. The facts of the case pertaining to the rulings of the trial court, which are reviewed on the present appeal, are sufficiently stated in the opinion. ' — The evidence •offered to show the ill will of the father and mother’of Otto Gordon upon whose affidavit the prosecution ivas commenced, was not admissible. — Smith v. State, 118 Ala. 117.
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
— The defendant was tried and convicted of carrying a pistol concealed ahont his person. The prosecution began upon a warrant issued upon the affidavit of one Otto Gordon, who was the principal Avitness for the State upon the trial of the defendant, was a boy fourteen years of age, and the son of M. and Mrs. A. Gordon. The defendant sought to prove by this witness on cross-examination, ill avüI and a state of bad feeling on the part of both M. Gordon and Mrs. A. Gordon towards the defendant. This testimony was objected to by the State, on the ground that it was irrelevant and immaterial, and…
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