Opinion

Crump v. State

  • 238 Ala. 439
  • 191 So. 478
  • 1939 Ala. LEXIS 13
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Oct 12, 1939
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown, Anderson, Thomas, Foster
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 55.0%

where the accused was charged with murder as a proximate result of operating a car under the influence of liquor, "[i]t seems to us entirely relevant and competent — perhaps, or possibly, material — to show that he had had some whiskey to drink 3 1/2 or 4 or 5 or 6 hours before the accident"

How later courts described this case

  • where the accused was charged with murder as a proximate result of operating a car under the influence of liquor, "[i]t seems to us entirely relevant and competent — perhaps, or possibly, material — to show that he had had some whiskey to drink 3 1/2 or 4 or 5 or 6 hours before the accident"

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

BROWN, Justice.

Petition of Hollis Crump for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in the case styled Crump v. State, ■191. So. 475.

Writ denied.

ANDERSON, C. J., and THOMAS and FOSTER, JJ., concur.

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