Posey v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ or Error to Jefferson Circuit Court. Tried before lion. Sam’l. II. Sprott. The indictment in this cause charged that Wesley Posey, the defendant in the court below, liad carnal knowledge of a designated -female, under the age of ten years, or did abuse said female 'in the attempt to have carnal knowledge of her. On the trial he was convicted and sentenced to be hung; and to reverse the judgment of conviction, he applied for, and obtained a writ of error.
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Writ or Error to Jefferson Circuit Court. Tried before lion. Sam’l. II. Sprott. The indictment in this cause charged that Wesley Posey, the defendant in the court below, liad carnal knowledge of a designated -female, under the age of ten years, or did abuse said female 'in the attempt to have carnal knowledge of her. On the trial he was convicted and sentenced to be hung; and to reverse the judgment of conviction, he applied for, and obtained a writ of error. The facts disclosed by the record, necessary to an understanding of the points decided by the court, are sufficiently stated in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
— The fall term, 1883, of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County was commenced on the 19th day of November, that being the 12th Monday after the 4th Monday in August — the time appointed by the statute for the holding of that court. — -Sess. Acts of 1882-3, p. 42. • That court continues its sessions until the business is disposed of. At that term it remained in session four weeks, and until December 15th, as-shown by the certificate of the clerk. The indictment, on which the accused was tried, was filed in the clerk’s office, December 4th, which was Tuesday of the third week. The prisoner was…
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