Alabama Court of Appeals, 1933

Weakley v. State

Weakley v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals · Decided April 4, 1933 · Samford
147 So. 926; 25 Ala. App. 694 (Southern Reporter)

Weakley v. State

Opinion of the Court

SAMFORD, Judge.

The court has read this record en banc and has reached the conclusion that a new trial should be granted. While there is a scintilla of evidence tending to prove the corpus delicti and the defendant’s connection with five or six bottles of home brew found by the officers hidden in a trunk in an upstairs room of defendant’s residence, we do not think the evidence rises to that degree of certainty which is necessary to a conviction in a criminal case.

The trial judge should have granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial, and for that reason the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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