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122 Ala. 107

Lodge v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1898

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1898-11-15

Tried before the Hon. Jas. A. Bilbro. ' The appellant, George Lodge, was indicted, tried and convicted for carrying a pistol concealed about his person. The testimony for the State tended to show that on March 27,1898, the defendant was seen at Bock Bun Station, in Cherokee County, Alabama, waiting for a train; that as he stooped down his coat got hung over the handle of Ms pistol, Avhicli Avas in liis hip pocket, and the pistol Avas seen by the State’s Avitnesses.

Relies on Miller v. State · Allen v. State · Nicholson v. State

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Decided 1898-11-15

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1923

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SHARPE, J.

¶1— The charge given at the solicitor’s request was clearly correct.

¶2Of the charges refused to the defendant charges 1 and 1 were incorrect.

¶3The same proposition contained in them concerning the reasonable doubt ivas condemned in Nicholson v. The State, 117 Ala. 32, where it was said it “might have misled the jury to the conclusion that if they had a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt groiving out of a certain part of the evidence they should acquit him even though such doubt were dissipated by other evidence, or did not exist upon the whole evidence.” Charge 2 was covered by given charge No. 5, and charge 3 ivas substantially embodied in given charges Nos. 1 and 7. The defendant cannot complain of the refusal of charges which are substantially the same as other charges given at his request. Allen v. State, 111 Ala. 80; Miller v. State, 110 Ala. 69.

¶4Eefusetl charge No. 5, while asserting no incorrect principle, was stated in argumentative form whereby prominence was given to that part of the defendant’s testimony relating to the alibi and, therefore, its refusal was not error.

¶5No exceptions arise from rulings upon testimony, and no error appearing in any part of the record the judgment of the circuit court will be affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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