Owens v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Crenshaw. Tried before the Hon. John E. Tyson. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion .
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of robbery, and sentenced to suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of ten. years. ■After conviction, he moved in arrest of judgment on the grounds, first, that the first count of the indictment was fatally defective, in that it failed to describe the property alleged to have been taken with sufficient definiteness; and, secondly, that the second count was defective for the same reason, and that there was a misjoinder of offenses in the second count.
In the first count, the property is described as “thirty dollars in United States…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grant v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Duvall v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- Gady v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
- Carden v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
3Cited by10 opinions
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- Wideman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
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