Legal Opinion

Morrow v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided August 13, 1957No. 8 Div. 976PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

The Grand Jury of Marshall County indicted Morrow on March 23, 1956, for distilling and possession of a still. Morrow filed a plea of misnomer. The solicitor demurred to said plea. The trial judge sustained the demurrer.

Trial was held June 6, 1956, before a jury on issue joined by Morrow’s plea of not guilty. A general verdict was returned and the judge there upon adjudged the defendant guilty and sentenced him to three years’ penal servitude.

Morrow lists three grounds in his assignments of error, viz.:

“1. The Court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for a continuance…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Morningstar v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
  2. Pinkerton v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1945
  3. Hughes v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1928
  4. Mitchell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1956
  5. Griffin v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1939

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Weigart v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1965
  2. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1969

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