Legal Opinion

Moore v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1857PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Euoat the pircuit-Court of Tuskaloosa., Tried heforé-the'Horn, Robert Doug-herty. The bill of exceptions in this case is as follows : • “On the trial of this case, the State proved, by Blair, Jomison, Lacy and Leach, that they had seen, the defendant, within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, play cards a few times in a back room in the. upper story of a house fronting on Main street in the city of Tuskaloosa, rented and controlled by one Shandy Jones, a…

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Euoat the pircuit-Court of Tuskaloosa., Tried heforé-the'Horn, Robert Doug-herty. The bill of exceptions in this case is as follows : • “On the trial of this case, the State proved, by Blair, Jomison, Lacy and Leach, that they had seen, the defendant, within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, play cards a few times in a back room in the. upper story of a house fronting on Main street in the city of Tuskaloosa, rented and controlled by one Shandy Jones, a free man of color, who pursued the business of a public barber; that the lower rooms of said house were used by said Jones…

1Opinion of the CourtRice, C. J.

On the authority of Cochran v. The State, at the present term, and of the cases therein cited, the judgment of the court below in the present caséis affirmed.

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Tolbert v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
  2. McCalman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
  3. Miles v. City of MontgomeryAlabama Court of Appeals · 1919
  4. Russell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882

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