Chatteaux v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from City Court of Mobile. Tried before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Appellant was convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person.
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Appeal from City Court of Mobile. Tried before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Appellant was convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person. The testimony tended to show in substance that defendant was a fruit and vegetable dealer in the market at Mobile; that his business required his attention late in the night and early in the morning, he often counting up his cash and carrying it and his books home with him after closing at night; that his route, from his place of business to his home, carried him along the wharf and through a portion of the city known as “ Spanish Alley ; ” that many…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
The charge excepted to in this cause was excepted to as a whole, and was the main charge given by the court of its own motion to the jury. It consisted in fact of several separate charges, or instructions ; some of which were undoubtedly correct. Only one of them is here objected to as erroneous. A general exception to such a charge does not authorize this court to examine it in order to find error. The attention of the court below should have been called by the exception to the particular instruction upon which the allegation of error was intended to be predicated. Cohen v. The State, in MS.
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