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1 Ala. App. 232

Harper v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 20, 1911

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1911-04-20

Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. S. Newton Harper was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1955

2 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed and remanded · Decided 1911-04-20

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PELHAM, J.

¶1The defendant ivas indicted in the circuit court of Jackson county for a violation of the prohibition laws, and filed a plea in abatement, setting up his true name to be “Solomon Newton Harper,” and not “S. Newton Harper,” as alleged in the indictment, and that he had never been known or called by that name. The state, without filing a replication, took issue upon the plea. There was evidence to sustain the plea, and it was error in the court to give the general charge in favor of the state on the issue made. (The reporter will set out a summary of the evidence to sustain the plea in abatement.)

¶2It is not necessary to notice the other questions presented, as in all probability they will not occur upon another trial, and for the error pointed out the case must be reversed and remanded.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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