Supreme Court of Alabama, 1884

Alsop v. State

Alsop v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided December 15, 1884 · Stone
77 Ala. 87

Alsop v. State

Opinion of the Court

STONE, O. J.

In testing the credibility of narrations of fact, it is, as a rule, permissible to consider the surroundings, or attendant circumstances. Especially is this the case, when, as on the present trial, there was no positive testimony of the main *89fact, but it was left to be inferred from proof of other facts. The charge asked should have been given. — Sackett, Instruction to Juries, 474-5.

[Reversed and remanded. Let the defendant remain in custody, until discharged by due course of law.

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