Cobb v. State

The defendant was convicted of violating the prohibition laws, and he appeals.

It was within (the sound discretion of the trial court to excuse the witness Campbell from the rule without requiring him to he examined first as a state’s witness. Moulton v. State, 19 Ala. App. 446, 98 So. 709; Shumate v. State, 19 Ala. App. 340, 97 So. 772. And the record does not, in our opinion, show an abuse of that discretion.

It was entirely immaterial as to whether or not the officers had a search warrant. Consequently there was no error in sustaining the state’s objection to the question to the witness…