Legal Opinion
Mason v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided August 14, 1956No. 5 Div. 493PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.
The indictment against this appellant charged that he, having been convicted of a crime of violence, did possess a pistol, etc.
Section 174, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940, provides that no person who has been convicted of a crime of violence shall own or possess a pistol.
The appellant filed a plea of not guilty, and a special plea setting up that in 1939 he had been convicted in this State of murder in the second degree and sentenced to a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary; and that on the 24th day of April 1950 the State Board of Pardons and Paroles had…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Ex Parte GarlandSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Carlesi v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Burdick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- In Re LavineCalifornia Supreme Court · 1935
- People v. BiggsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1937
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3Cited by32 opinions
- BURTON v. SillsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1968
- State v. AmosSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
- Randolph County v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1987
- Gholston v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1993
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
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