Legal Opinion · Dissent

Bolin v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 20, 1957No. 6 Div. 288Published

1DissentMerrill, Justice

I cannot follow the reasoning of the majority opinion, nor can I see any reasonable distinction between the cited prohibition law statutes and the ones dealing with stink bombs. The cited prohibition law statutes probably have been construed as often as any of our penal statutes in the past thirty-eight years, and to my mind, they furnish settled and established guidance for application to the instant case.

Title 29, § 131, Code 1940, makes it unlawful for a person to “have in possession, any still, apparatus, appliance, or any device or substitute therefor, to be used for the purpose of…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Coats v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952
  2. Wilson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  3. Bolin v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1957
  4. Carter v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
  5. Arthur v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1923

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