Finnem v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. N. H. Thompson. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for engaging in the sport of fighting cocks in a public place.
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Appeal from the County Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. N. H. Thompson. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for engaging in the sport of fighting cocks in a public place. The testimony for the State was that within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, in Bibb county, near the town of Blocton, in an old field about one-fourth or one-half mile from the public road, the defendant, with others, were engaged in cock fighting; that there were present between 75 and 100 people witnessing the cock fighting; that it was not necessary that people should have an invitation…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
On the evidence there can be no doubt that the place where the defendant fought cocks was a public place.—Campbell v. State, 17 Ala. 369; Henderson v. State, 59 Ala. 89; Windham v. State, 26 Ala. 69 ; Coleman v. State, 20 Ala. 51.
The evidence being without conflict as to the character of the place and also as to the commission by the defendant of the act denounced by the statute at that place, and as to time and venue, the court properly gave the affirmative charge for the State as requested by the solicitor,
*108The charges requested by the defendant proceeded on the idea that the evidence did…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Windham v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
- Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1850
- Coleman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852
- Henderson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
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