Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hou. O. J. Semmes. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of larceny of coal from a car, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years.
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Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hou. O. J. Semmes. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of larceny of coal from a car, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The evidence for the State tended to show that the defendant was employed by the Mobile Light & Railway Company to haul coal from the cars, which were located at a certain place on a certain street in the city of Mobile, to the power house of the said corporation; and that while so engaged in hauling the coal, he sold some of it and had it hauled away to the person to whom it was sold ; and…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
— The defendant was indicted and convicted of grand larceny. A great many exceptions were reserved to the ruling of the court upon the admission and exclusion of evidence introduced or offered in the progress of the trial. In almost every instance the objection seems to have been of a general character, without specifying any particular ground of objection. A general objection is sufficient, when the evidence offered is patently and palpably inadmissible for any purpose. When the evidence offered is not of this character, the court is not bound to cast about for the grounds of the objection.…
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