Calvert v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Blount Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. John P. Calvert was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals.
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Violating Prohibition Law. Appeal from Blount Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John W. Inzer. John P. Calvert was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. The evidence of a sale was not sufficient to authorize the confession of the defendant to be introduced and the defendant was entitled to the affirmative charge. — Dcimis v. The State, 141 Ala. 66; Harden v. The State, 109 Ala. 50; Winslow v. The State, 76 Ala. 47; Vaughan v. The State, 80 South. 673. — The evidence was sufficient to authorize the introduction of the confession. — Ryan v. The State, 100 Ala. 94.; Winslow…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
— Prosecution for selling whisky in the year 1908. Defendant was apprehended at the house of one James Mickens. The developments of that occasion were made the basis of this prosecution. Three or four *100other negroes were present, and in the room were two empty jugs and several bottles of whisky. Proprietor Mickens testified that he had gone away earlier in the night, and that upon his return he found the negroes and the whisky in his house, where neither they nor it had been left. Upon the evidence of these facts, without more, as a predicate in the way of proof of the corpus deliciti of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Harden v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
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