# Wallace v. State

> Alabama Court of Appeals · April 16, 1918 · 16 Ala. App. 451

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3224158

## Case

- **Full name:** Wallace v. State.
- **Court:** Alabama Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** April 16, 1918
- **Citations:** 16 Ala. App. 451; 78 So. 714; 1918 Ala. App. LEXIS 133
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BROWN, P. J.
[1, 2]
Any witness familiar by experience with the appearance and treatment of wounds, particularly physicians and surgeons, may give an opinion as to the manner in which a wound was probably inflicted and the instrument used. Rash v. State, 61 Ala. 89 -93; Underhill’s Cr. Ev. § 312; 1 Greenl. Ev. 440; Pearce v. State, 14 Ala. App. 120 , 72 South. 213 . The testimony of the state’s witness, Hr. Lindsey, was within the rule. It is permissible for a witness
*452
to testify
that one was
drunk, or “acted like he was drunk.” 1 Mayf. Dig. 336, § 37.
Counsel for appellant have submitted no brief or argument, and we have carefully examined the record and find no reversible error therein, or anything further that warrants discussion.
Affirmed.

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