Adair v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Axt'kal from tlie Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. The facts, of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Axt'kal from tlie Circuit Court of Marshall. Tried before the Hon. J. A. Bilbro. The facts, of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. In addition to the portion of the charge copied in the opinion, to which the defendant separately excepted, the defendant, separately excepted to the following portions of the court’s general charge: (B.) “If a person) retires -from the meeting for purpose of his own with the1 intent, of returning, he continues a part of the assemblage.” (C.) “If a person in an assemblage wants a'drink of water and goes to a convenient spring inteding to return, he…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The defendant Avas tried and convicted on an indictment for disturbing religious Avorship. — Grim. Code, § 4654. The assemblage of people charged to have been disturbed, as stated in the bill of *187exceptions, had met “for an all day singing and preaching;” the singing occupying the forenoon and a part of the afternoon, until 3 o’clock, when the preaching began, with an intermission between the singing exercises and the preaching. The Sitare, on the trial, was permitted to show, against the objection of the defendant, the conduct and declarations of the defendant a.t different times, covered by…
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- Culpepper v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1946