Reeves v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Wm. E. Port, Judge. Clarence Reeves, alias Cecil Walton, was convicted of robbery, and be appealed. The following motion to quash the venire was made by the defendant, and it was also made an objection by the defendant to being put upon his trial before this venire: (1) Said venire was not drawn according to law. (2) The jury box from which the venire for this week was drawn had been in charge of others than authorized by law.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Wm. E. Port, Judge. Clarence Reeves, alias Cecil Walton, was convicted of robbery, and be appealed. The following motion to quash the venire was made by the defendant, and it was also made an objection by the defendant to being put upon his trial before this venire: (1) Said venire was not drawn according to law. (2) The jury box from which the venire for this week was drawn had been in charge of others than authorized by law. (3) The said jury box from which this venire was drawn had been opened, the tickets with the names of the jurors counted,…
1Opinion of the CourtBricken, P. J.
It .would be difficult to conceive of a fairer or more impartial trial than was accorded this defendant as shown by the i’eeord in this case. He was represented by able counsel appointed by the court to defend him. The court through an abundance of caution declined to permit the state to introduce in evidence an alleged full confession by the defendant of the offense charged, notwithstanding the extensive and exhaustive predicate which was laid for this purpose by the state and which under the well-settled rule was in the opinion of this court amply sufficient for the introduction of the…
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