Legal Opinion

Youngblood v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided January 22, 1924No. 6 Div. 287PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtPoster, J.

The appellant was convicted for manufacturing prohibited liquors.

It was not error for the court to permit the solicitor for the state to ask the state’s witness White, “Are you absolutely positive that' you saw Louis Youngblood there [at the still]?” The permission of leading questions is fn the sound discretion of the trial judge. .

Exception was reserved to the following portion of the court’s oral charge:

“A reasonable doubt, gentlemen, is what that term implies, a doubt for which there exists a reason to be found in the evidence, or due to the lack of sufficient evidence to satisfy you…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1897
  2. Hodge v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
  3. Avery v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899
  4. Cohen v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1874
  5. Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1898

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Glover v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1929
  2. Ex Parte YoungbloodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924

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