Legal Opinion

Wood v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 21, 1942No. 4 Div. 680Published

1Opinion of the Court

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

After a careful study of the evidence in this case, and applying thereto principles of law announced in each of the following cited cases, we are clear to the conclusion that the trial court erred to a reversal in overruling and denying defendant’s motion for a new trial, as under said decisions the evidence adduced upon this trial was wholly insufficient upon which to predicate the conviction of the defendant, after allowing all reasonable presumptions of the correctness of the judgment of conviction from which this appeal was taken, the preponderance of evidence…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ex Parte GrimmettSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  2. Hardis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1939
  3. McGee v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912
  4. Copeland v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1929
  5. Bufford v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1932

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