Legal Opinion
Wilbanks v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided November 6, 1962No. 5 Div. 610PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
Indictment: first degree murder of Barbara Lucas King by shooting her with a rifle [8 mm. Mauser sports]. Verdict: guilty of first degree manslaughter. Sentence: ten years. Motion for new trial: denied.
The testimony of Dr. Rehling brought out by the question as to his “investigation of the path of flight from the entrance of that hole” [in which the bullet was found in the King’s wall] did not invade the province of the jury, Pruitt v. State, 232 Ala. 421, 168 So. 149, even though the use of ‘-‘path of flight” in the question related to a material part of the ultimate issue. This…
2Cases cited48 opinions
- Osborn v. Bank of United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- People v. AbbottCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
- Knight v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1962
- Hines v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
- Rollings v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Donald Dwayne Whatley v. State of Alabama.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2010
- Ivey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
- McLaughlin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1991
- Quinlivan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- State v. WilbanksSupreme Court of Alabama · 1969
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