Legal Opinion

Fuller v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided November 23, 1937No. 2 Div. 609PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICE, Judge.

If indeed,' as appears, the judge’s bench not,es on the former trial — the one made the basis of appellant’s plea of former jeopardy^ — show that the jury, on that trial, was discharged, before reaching a verdict, with appellant’s consent, his said plea was doomed, in its ultimate analysis, to futility.

So, while conceding technical error in the, action of the trial court in granting the State’s motion to strike appellant’s said plea, it can “avail appellant nothing”; this for the reason, "as the matter appears to us, that the court knew its own records and therefore knew the plea…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Adams v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1915
  2. Hughes v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  3. Ex Parte SpelceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Key v. DozierSupreme Court of Alabama · 1949
  2. Hamilton v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1969
  3. White v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964
  4. Vines v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1952
  5. Riggs v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2013

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