Legal Opinion

Hubbard v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 17, 1968No. 6 Div. 457Published

1Opinion

ON SECOND REHEARING

' COLEMAN, Justice.

On motion of the writer, this cause was placed on rehearing.

On further consideration, we are of opinion that admitting into evidence defendant’s clothing and the hairs, which fell from his body when he took off his clothes, was not error.

On original deliverance, we held that admitting these articles into evidence violated the rights guaranteed to defendant by Section 6 of the Constitution of 1901, which recites :

“That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused .... shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself

The reversal rested on the…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Counselman v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  4. Holt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  5. William L. Maxwell v. Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965

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