Boyd v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Prom the Criminal Court of Pike. Tried before tbe Hon. Wi. H. Parks. The defendant in this case, a school teacher, was indicted for an assault and battery on Lee Crowder, who was one of his scholars; and the case being submitted to the court without a jury, he was convicted, and fined $25. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the court. cited Skinner v. State, 87 Ala. 105; State v. Pendergrass, 2 Dev. & Bat. 365, or 31 Amer.
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Prom the Criminal Court of Pike. Tried before tbe Hon. Wi. H. Parks. The defendant in this case, a school teacher, was indicted for an assault and battery on Lee Crowder, who was one of his scholars; and the case being submitted to the court without a jury, he was convicted, and fined $25. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the court. cited Skinner v. State, 87 Ala. 105; State v. Pendergrass, 2 Dev. & Bat. 365, or 31 Amer. Dec. 416. cited Wynn v. State, 87 Ala. 137; Skinner v. State, 87 Ala. 105; Lander v. Sevear, 32 Vt. 114, or 76 Amer. Dec. 156; Anderson v. State, 3 Head…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The defendant, a schoolmaster, being indicted, was convicted of an assault and battery on one Lee Crowder, a pupil in his school, who is shown to have been about eighteen years of age. The defense is, that the alleged bautery was a reasonable chastisement inflicted by the master in just maintenance of discipline, and in punishment of conduct on the part of the pupil which tended to the subversion of good order in the school.
The case involves a consideration of the proper rule of law prescribing the extent of the schoolmaster’s authority to administer corporal correction to a pupil.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lander v. SeaverSupreme Court of Vermont · 1859
- State v. . HarrisSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1868
- State ex rel. Burpee v. BurtonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
- Knowles v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1885
- Patterson v. NutterSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1886
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Bowers v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1978
- Suits v. GloverSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
- People v. JenningsSupreme Court of Colorado · 1982
- State v. SinicaNebraska Supreme Court · 1985
- Ladd v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
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