Brasfield v. Hood

The trial court cannot be placed in error for not permitting the defendant to testify that he had the car under control a quarter Of a mile and up to the time of the colli sion. In the first place, the proof did not qualify him as an expert in the operation of automobiles, which differentiates this case from Louisville & N. R. R. v. Jacobson, 218 Ala. 384, 118 So. 565. Second, the defendant got the substantial benefit of this question by an affirmative answer to the preceding question, which was not excluded.

The trial court cannot be reversed for the refusal of defendant’s requested charge…