Legal Opinion

Ribghy v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided August 19, 1958No. 1 Div. 764Published

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

The appellants, tried on a severance, had been indicted (along with Effie Ribghy and Daisy Daniels) for the larceny of Mr. Ulmer Bradley’s “cow, or animal of the *531cow kind.” The jury found them guilty and their punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

On June 9, 1957, Mr. Orrie Coughlin found the feet and legs (up above the knee) of a “cow” with red and white markings. The next day he found burning the head of a dehorned calf. These clues were found around Daisy Daniels’s house about a mile south of Old Blacksher along Highway 59.

Ribghy confessed to helping Lillian…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Snoddy v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1883
  2. Driggers v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1928
  3. Wesley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1878
  4. Hunt v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
  5. Marsh v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912

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