Norris v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Sam’l Chapman. 1. On questions of science, trade, &c., persons of skill, as a general rule, alone may give their opinions in evidence. 1 Greenl.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Sam’l Chapman. 1. On questions of science, trade, &c., persons of skill, as a general rule, alone may give their opinions in evidence. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 440. 2. An exception to this general rule is, that in eases of insanity, any persons occupying a peculiar relation or connection to the person whose soundness of mind is questioned may “ detail facts, circumstances and a series of declarations, conducing to show an aberration of mind,” and give their opinion on the same. Bowling v. Bowling, ex’r, 8 Ala. Rep. 538; Robert v. Trawick,…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
This was an indictment for grand larceny. Plea not guilty. The defendant below was convicted and sentenced by the presiding judge to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A bill of exceptions was sealed at the trial, from which it appears that the father of the prisoner was introduced as a witness, who testified that his son was about seventeen years of age at the time of the commission of the alleged act: That he had lived with him from his infancy (birth,) and he testified to many facts, consisting of the acts and declarations of the prisoner, tending to show, that for a series of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bowling v. Bowling, Ex'r.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1845
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