Legal Opinion

Adkins v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 14, 1957No. 7 Div. 359PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MERRILL, Justice.

The single ground insisted upon in petition for writ of certiorari, filed by the Attorney General, is that the Court of Appeals erred in holding that “the argument to the jury by the Solicitor to the effect that if the State had not made out a case, the Court would have taken it from the jury, was improper since the Solicitor was replying to the argument of defense counsel that the State had failed to make out a case.”

We do not think the Court of Appeals meant to cite the quoted statement from 127 A.L.R. 362 as authority to be followed, but merely as a reference where…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. NathooSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
  2. Loyall v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1940

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Summers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  2. Bland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1981
  3. Houston v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977
  4. McCay v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1973
  5. Connell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1958

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