Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Perry Court of Quarter Sessions. Tried before the Hon. Powhattan Looeett. The indictment in this case charged that “Andrew Washington and George Neal feloniously took and carried away a hog, the personal property of one Bobert Harper,” &c. While the jury were being empanneled it was agreed between the defendants’ counsel and solicitor, that one Wm.
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Appeal from the Perry Court of Quarter Sessions. Tried before the Hon. Powhattan Looeett. The indictment in this case charged that “Andrew Washington and George Neal feloniously took and carried away a hog, the personal property of one Bobert Harper,” &c. While the jury were being empanneled it was agreed between the defendants’ counsel and solicitor, that one Wm. Pitts, a cousin of the solicitor, who had been drawn as a juror, should be excused from the jury because of such relationship, but the court refused, and defendant excepted. The case then proceeded to trial and the prosecutor…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Tbe objection to tbe juror did not fall within any of tbe grounds of challenge for cause, and, therefore, tbe court did not err in overruling it. — Code of 1876, §§ 4734, et seg.; 4881 et seq.
The objection to tbe description of tbe animal, alleged to have been stolen, as a bog, was not well taken. — Lavender v. The State, at tbe present term.
We do not think tbe court erred in refusing to pass on tbe sufficiency of tbe evidence to convict George Neal. There was some testimony tending to show be was a participant in tbe commission of tbe offense charged, and its sufficiency, under proper…
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