Collins v. State

Insistence is made in brief of counsel that the court erred in refusing to give, at the request of defendant in writing, charge No. 4. No citation of authority supports this contention, and the court is left to its own resources in searching the hundreds of charges of this and similar nature for authority either pro or con.

This identical charge was held to be the law in Burton’s Case, 107 Ala. 108, 18 So. 284, and in Pickens’ Case, 115 Ala. 42, 22 So. 551. The ruling in the Burton Case, and other cases following the ruling there, have been overruled, and the charge is now condemned. Shelton…