Legal Opinion

Lancaster v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 16, 1953No. 8 Div. 707PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

SIMPSON, Justice.

Certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review that court’s affirmance of a judgment of conviction of petitioner of the offense of living in adultery as denounced by § 16, Title 14, Code 1940.

Counsel for petitioner advances the argument that the case on the facts is controlled by such cases as Smith v. State, 39 Ala. 554, and Boice v. State, 10 Ala.App. 100, 65 So. 83, holding to the general effect that one act of criminal intimacy is not sufficient to constitute the offense. Under our limited review of certiorari, however, we are confined to the statement of facts in the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Ex Parte SellersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
  2. Reichert Milling Co. v. GeorgeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1934
  3. Boice v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1914
  4. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1865
  5. Walker v. IngramSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Keel v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963

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