Moye v. State

The only question of merit appearing in this record is the action of the court in overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial upon the ground that the bloody clothes worn by the party assaulted at the time of the assault were introduced in evidence, and permitted to remain before the jury during the trial. It is insisted that these bloody clothes were but the presentation of an unsightly spectacle calculated to prejudice the jury. This insistence finds some semblance of support in Boyette v. State, 215 Ala. 472, 110 So. 812; but we do not think this case is controlled by the Boyette Case,…