Legal Opinion

Key v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 14, 1939No. 2 Div. 155PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, Justice.

Under repeated rulings by this court it was permissible, after the defendant on cross-examination of the State’s witness has brought out part of a transaction or conversation, for the State to show the entire .transaction or conversation. Richardson v. State, 237 Ala. 11, 186 So. 580; Wesson v. State, 238 Ala. 399, 191 So. 249.

In Shamberger v. State, 221 Ala. 538, 130 So. 70, 71, after the State’s witness had testified that: “Dan Shamberger, and his brother Horace, with threats against his life, commandeered * * * him and Morris Chaney, * * * took them to the site of an old…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Green v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
  2. Wesson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  3. Richardson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1938
  4. Shamberger v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Wilson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  2. Abercrombie v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
  3. Hocutt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977
  4. Scott v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
  5. Colvin v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1953

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