Woods v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Walker Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. Steve Woods, alias Andrew Jackson, was convicted of an attempt to carnally know a boy, and he appeals. Affirmed in part, and in part reversed and remanded. The indictment is as follows, omitting formal parts: “Steve Woods, alias Andrew Jackson, whose name is otherwise unknown to the grand jury, against the order of nature, attempted to carnally know Oscar Kilgore, a boy.”
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Appeal from Walker Law and Equity Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. Steve Woods, alias Andrew Jackson, was convicted of an attempt to carnally know a boy, and he appeals. Affirmed in part, and in part reversed and remanded. The indictment is as follows, omitting formal parts: “Steve Woods, alias Andrew Jackson, whose name is otherwise unknown to the grand jury, against the order of nature, attempted to carnally know Oscar Kilgore, a boy.” The evidence tended to show an attempt on the part of the defendant to have the boy named in the indictment take into his mouth tbe private of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
The indictment was sufficient.— Bradford v. State, 104 Ala. 68, 16 South. 107, 53 Am. St. Rep. 24.
The bill of exceptions, after setting out a part of the court’s oral charge, states that “before the jury retired the defendant duly excepted to that portion of the oral charge in quotations and underscored.” Nothing that purports to be a quotation from that charge is underscored in the bill of exceptions found in the record. The result is that the subject of the exception reserved is not identified. The record does not enable us to know to what part of the charge the exception was reserved. An…
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