Opinion

Wiggins v. State

244 Ala. 246
12 So. 2d 758
1943 Ala. LEXIS 171

Court: Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed: Mar 18, 1943
Status: Published
Author: Brown
On the bench: Brown, Gardner, Thomas, Livingston
Cited by: 9 cases
Authority: More cited than 72.0%

The opinion

BROWN, Justice.

There was» a general verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment. The several counts of the indictment each charge, in statutory form, the commission of a felony, kindred crimes, subject to like punishment, to be fixed by the Court. In imposing a single penalty and sentence, the court was authorized to refer the conviction to any one of said counts. Scott v. State, 37 Ala. 117 ; Cawley v. State, 37 Ala. 152 ; Arden v. State, 6 Ala.App. 64 , 60 So. 538 ; Lucas v. State, 144 Ala. 63 , 39 So. 821 , 3 L.R.A.,N.S., 412; Hughes v. State, 11 Ala.App. 307 , 66 So. 844 .

The writ of certiorari is due to be denied. It is so ordered.

Writ of certiorari denied.

GARDNER, C. J., and THOMAS and LIVINGSTON, JJ., concur.

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