Hudson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Conecuh. Tried before Hon. John K. Henry. The appellant, Walker A. Hudson, was convicted under an indictment which charged that “ he wilfully set fire to and burned a mill, which said mill was then a grist mill, and which said mill and the property therein contained was then and there of the value of five hundred dollars, the property of W. B. Shaver and John Brown, against the peace,” &c.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Conecuh. Tried before Hon. John K. Henry. The appellant, Walker A. Hudson, was convicted under an indictment which charged that “ he wilfully set fire to and burned a mill, which said mill was then a grist mill, and which said mill and the property therein contained was then and there of the value of five hundred dollars, the property of W. B. Shaver and John Brown, against the peace,” &c. The State introduced one W. B. Shaver, who testified that he and John Brown were the owners of a grist mill, situated in Conecuh county, and that said mill was burned in the…
1Opinion of the Court
BRICKELL, C. I.
1. In criminal cases, the corpus delicti being established by evidence aliunde, there are many minor facts, or evidentiary circumstances, which are admissible to implicate the accused. “ They are resorted to,” says Mr. Burrill, “as elements of evidence, not from any supposed *337necessity of accounting for, or explaining the reason of a criminal act which has been clearly proved and fixed upon the accused, however strange and inexplicable such act may in itself appear, but from the important aid they always render in completing the proof of the commission of such act by the party…
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