# Wiggins v. State

> Supreme Court of Alabama · March 18, 1943 · 244 Ala. 246

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3228654

## Case

- **Full name:** Wiggins v. State.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** March 18, 1943
- **Citations:** 244 Ala. 246; 12 So. 2d 758; 1943 Ala. LEXIS 171
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Gardner, Thomas, Livingston
- **Cited by:** 9 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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