Legal Opinion

Pressnall v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 17, 1917No. 1 Div. 243PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from Clarke County Court; A. S. Johnson, Judge. Josh Pressnall was convicted, and appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtSamford, J.

The defendant was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and from a judgment of conviction he appeals.

There are but two questions of law presented by the record for review:

1. The court, over the objection of the defendant, allowed the witness Waite, who testified for the state, to state that when he first met the defendant on the evening the whisky was obtained, the defendant was half drunk. This was error; but was rendered, error without injury by the defendant himself, who, in his direct testimony, said he was full drunk. Kelsoe v. State, 15 Ala. App. 461, 73 South. 831.

2. The…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kelsoe v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Jarrell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
  2. Kornegay v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1948
  3. Huling v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1956

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