Haynes v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Dale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Mike Sollie. Joe Haynes was convicted of violating the prohibition law and he appeals.
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Appeal from Dale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Mike Sollie. Joe Haynes was convicted of violating the prohibition law and he appeals. The court erred in permitting the affidavit to be amended. — Perry v. The State, 78 Ala. 22. The court erred in putting defendant on trial on the matters shown in the record. — Section 6730, Code 1907; Moss v. The State, 42 Ala. 547; McGhee v. The State, 115 Ala. 138. The filing of a complaint cannot be dispensed with except by. consent of the defendant. — Carlisle v. The State. 76 Ala. 75. Under defendant’s own statement he ivas guilty. — Section 29%, Acts…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J. —
It may be that this appeal may result in some good, in that it may be made to operate as a reminder to trial courts, clerks of trial courts, and the attorneys employed to represent parties who have cases to be tried in our courts, that the record of a case, no matter how small the case may be, should be so prepared as to conform to the requirements of the law. In this case the defendant, in open court, admitted that he had been guilty of an act which, if his admission was true, was a violation of the prohibition law. His admission, it is true, tended to show that he only…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Moss v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1868
3Cited by20 opinions
- Perry v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1919
- Howard v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1919
- Latikos v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
- Sanders v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918
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