Legal Opinion
Straughn v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 21, 1960No. 3 Div. 860PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Per curiam
We granted certiorari to review the opinion and judgment of the Court of Appeals in the case of Straughn v. State of Alabama, 121 So.2d 882.
The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of conviction on the ground that the trial court erred in overruling Straughn’s objection to a question propounded the State’s witness Brock and in overruling Straughn’s motion to exclude the answer to the question.
The question and the answer thereto are as follows:
“Q. Do you have an opinion as to how far off McKinley Davis was at the time this wound was inflicted on him, from the end of this gun barrel?
A. I…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1959
- Alexander v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954
- Wise v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1914
- People v. SmithCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1938
- Phillips v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Hurst v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1981
- Douglas v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1963
- State v. JilesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1966
- Donald Dwayne Whatley v. State of Alabama.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2010
- Luria v. Bank of Coral GablesSupreme Court of Florida · 1932
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