Alabama Court of Appeals, 1925

Armstrong v. State

Armstrong v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals · Decided March 24, 1925 · Rige
103 So. 388; 20 Ala. App. 546; 1925 Ala. App. LEXIS 66 (Southern Reporter)

Armstrong v. State

Opinion of the Court

*547 RIGE, J.

The defendant was convicted on both counts under an indictment charging him with distilling prohibited liquor and with unlawfully being in possession of a still.

Complaint is made here that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting, over defendant’s objection, testimony to the effect that a still which was found by the officers near defendant’s premises “fitted the eyes of a stove in defendant’s residence.” In the first place, no objection was interposed to the question calling for the testimony, and in the second place, this identical proposition has heretofore been by this court adjudicated adversely to the contention of appellant. Taylor v. State, 18 Ala. App. 439, 93 So. 305. Consequently' there was no error in this action of the court.

The testimony in the case, we think, and ■hold, brings it fairly within the rule laid down in Glaze v. State (Ala. App.) 100 So. 629. 1 It follows that the trial court properly refused the general affirmative charge requested by defendant.

The statements contained .in the oral charge of the court, of which complaint is here made, cannot be reviewed by reason of the fact that no exception was reserved in the manner prescribed by law. Ex parte State ex rel., etc., Montgomery v. State, 204 Ala. 389, 85 So. 785.

There appearing no prejudicial error in the record, let the case be affirmed.

Affirmed.

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Ante, p. 7.

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