Supreme Court of Alabama, 1985

Files v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided March 29, 1985 · Embry, Faulkner, Almon, Adams, Torbert

468 So. 2d 196; 1985 Ala. LEXIS 3644 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

Scarbrough v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1992)
Gouin v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1991)
Ex Parte Chambers (Ala. 1987)

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Opinion of the Court

EMBRY, Justice.

WRIT DENIED.

FAULKNER, ALMON and ADAMS, JJ., concur. TORBERT, C.J., concurs specially.

Concurring Opinion

TORBERT, Chief Justice

(concurring specially).

I concur in the denial of the writ; however, I do not necessarily agree with the statement by the Court of Criminal Appeals that the defendant, if he desired a separate ruling on his motion to strike the answer of a witness, should have given the trial court the opportunity to rule on that motion before making his motion for mistrial.

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