McAdory v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. John Henderson. Tbe appellant, Claiborn McAdory, was convicted of tbe burning of a gin-house of one Patrick J. McAdory, of the value of four hundred dollars. ' P. J. McAdory, as a witness for tbe State, testified that bis gin-house, situated in Coosa county, Alabama, and worth, with tbe contents, more than five hundred dollars, had been burned up on tbe night of tbe 17th of December, 1876; that be went immediately to tbe…
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Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. John Henderson. Tbe appellant, Claiborn McAdory, was convicted of tbe burning of a gin-house of one Patrick J. McAdory, of the value of four hundred dollars. ' P. J. McAdory, as a witness for tbe State, testified that bis gin-house, situated in Coosa county, Alabama, and worth, with tbe contents, more than five hundred dollars, had been burned up on tbe night of tbe 17th of December, 1876; that be went immediately to tbe fire on being aroused, and that be found there several persons ; that a short time afterwards James McAdory and Wiley…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The conversation between the prisoner and the witness Slaughter, had reference to the burning of the gin-house, and it was the prisoner who directed it to that subject. Any.indications of a consciousness of guilt by a person suspected of or charged with crime, or who may after such indications be suspected or charged, are admissible evidence against him. The number of such indications it is impossible to limit, nor can their nature or character be defined. Presumptions or inferences may be, and often are, founded on circumstances which, of themselves, independent of the accusation, would not…
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