Herbert v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Lawrence 1-Ierber.t was convicted of seduction, and he appealed to the Court of Appeals, .which affirmed the conviction (77 South. 83), from which he brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
This court is of the opinion that the question raised by petitioner’s (appellant’s) objection to evidence of acts between him and the prosecutrix done after the alleged seduction cannot be distinguished on any substantial grounds from the like question raised in Pope v. State, 137 Ala. 56, 34 South. 840, and in the cases cited on the brief for appellant to which the court in that case referred. The settled law of this state is that such subsequent acts cannot, in the face of apt objection, be proved against the defendant in a seduction case. The judgment of the Court of Appeals holding to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1902
3Cited by19 opinions
- Phillips v. AshworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
- Davis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1922
- Chambers v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1919
- Owens v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1924
- Hubby v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1945
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