Opinion

Clayton v. State

  • 23 Ala. App. 150
  • 123 So. 250
  • 1929 Ala. App. LEXIS 139
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Apr 16, 1929
Status
Published
Author
Rice
On the bench
Rice, Bricken, Samford
Cited by
19 cases
Authority
More cited than 43.8%

The opinion

RICE, J.

(dissenting). I respectfully dissent from the judgment of reversal in this case.

In the case of Doss v. State (Ala. App-.) 123 So. 237 ,

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a case, of which this is correctly termed, in .the opinion by SAMFORD, J., a “companion” case, I have set forth, very briefly, my views as to those matters held by the majority to be error, which in my opinion, would

not

have been r'endered harmless had the state been entitled to have given at its request, on the facts, the general affirmative charge in its favor. I adhere to those views.

In

this

case there is no question as to a lack of testimony corroborating that of the accomplices. Hei*e, in my opinion, every element of the offense of kidnapping, as that offense is defined by statute, was shown by the clear, positive, undisputed, and uneontradieted legal evidence offered by the state. This being true, the only

material

question was: Did the jury believe the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt? As I see it, neither this question, nor its answer, would have legally in any wise been altered had every ruling, other than those as to the demurrers to the plea in abatement and'to the indictment, neither of which I think was erroneous, held for error by the majority, been changed by the trial court to meet the objections of appellant. This being true, it seems to me, clearly, that the judgment of conviction ap- ' pealed from should be affirmed. Vaughan v. State, 21 Ala. App. 204 , 107 So. 797 ; Al. Henry Vaughan v. State, 214 Ala. 384 , 107 So. 799 . Supreme Court Rule 45; Code 1923, vol. 4, p. 895; Snyder v. State, 20 Ala. App. 570 , 104 So. 140 ; People v. Stennett, 51 Cal. App. 370 , 197 P. 372 .

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Post, p. 168."

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