Alabama Court of Appeals, 1931

Smallwood v. State

Smallwood v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals · Decided August 4, 1931 · Bricken
136 So. 481; 24 Ala. App. 459; 1931 Ala. App. LEXIS 88 (Southern Reporter)

Smallwood v. State

Opinion of the Court

BRICKEN, P. J.

Appellant was convicted under the second count of the indictment which charged him with the offense of unlawfully possessing a still, etc., to be used for the purpose of manufacturing alcoholic, spirituous, or malt liquors, etc. From the judgment of conviction he appealed.

But one question is here presented — the refusal of the general affirmative charge to defendant. We have given attentive consideration to the evidence adduced upon the trial in .the court below. The evidence was in conflict rendering inapt the affirmative charge, and the court had no authority to give this charge. Ode Grimes v. State, ante, p. 378, 135 So. 652.

Affirmed.

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