Legal Opinion

Ex parte Livingston

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 17, 1913PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Petition by Morris Livingston for certiorari to Court of Appeals, to review the decision of that court, affirming the decision of the lower court in accordance with the decision of this court made in Ex parte State, infra, 61 South. 53. Counsel discuss the merits of the petition with the insistence that there is manifest error in the admission of evidence, and the rulings made thereon by the Court of Appeals, as well as their holdings on the…

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Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Petition by Morris Livingston for certiorari to Court of Appeals, to review the decision of that court, affirming the decision of the lower court in accordance with the decision of this court made in Ex parte State, infra, 61 South. 53. Counsel discuss the merits of the petition with the insistence that there is manifest error in the admission of evidence, and the rulings made thereon by the Court of Appeals, as well as their holdings on the propositions of law expressed in the opinion, and cite authorities to support their contention, but in view of the…

1Opinion of the Court

de GBAFFENBIED, J.

In this case the defendant, Morris Livingston, was convicted of a felony, and appealed from the judgment of conviction to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals, after considering the case, entered up a judgment reversing the judgment of the lower court. Thereupon the state, through the Attorney General, filed a petition in this court for a writ of certiorari in said case to said Court of Appeals, and upon a consideration of the said petition the writ of certiorari was granted, the judgment of the Court of Appeals was reversed, and the cause was remanded to that court…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Independent Publishing Co. v. American Press Ass'nSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Kirkwood v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
  2. Ex parte Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1913
  3. Harman v. IdeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
  4. Wasserleben v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913

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