Adams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lowndes. Tried before Hon. J. Q. Smith. The appellant Adams was indicted and convicted for receiving a gin-band, knowing it had been stolen. On the trial but two witnesses were introduced, and both of these for the prosecution.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lowndes. Tried before Hon. J. Q. Smith. The appellant Adams was indicted and convicted for receiving a gin-band, knowing it had been stolen. On the trial but two witnesses were introduced, and both of these for the prosecution. The owner of the gin-band, one Buckhault, testified that it was stolen from him about the first of April, and that in the latter part of the same month, learning from one Bargainer that the band was in the defendant’s possession, witness and Barganier went to defendant’s house,, which was distant some five miles from the place where the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The court, in its general charge, referred to and enumerated several facts the evidence tended to prove, and instructed the jury in effect they could look to these facts, and, if they were deemed sufficient, on them pronounce a verdict of guilty. No exception was reserved to this charge, but the appellant singling out one of these facts requested the court to charge, that from it alone guilt could not be inferred. Admitting it to be true, as a legal proposition, that from this fact alone the guilt of the defendant was not inferable, the right of a defendant thus to sever the facts, and…
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- Fulton v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1913
- Buchanan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
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