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15 Ala. App. 483

73 So 994

Rogers v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided January 30, 1917

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1917-01-30

<p>Appeal from St. Clair Circuit Court.</p> <p>Heard before Hon. J. E. Blackwood.</p> <p>Hugh Rogers was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1958

2 state decisions

Relies on Olmstead v. State · Bush v. State · Arrington v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1917-01-30

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PELHAM, P. J.—

¶1 (1) The indictment, charging that the defendant sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, or otherwise disposed of prohibited liquors, was sufficiently broad to cover and charge an offense under section 33 of the act approved January 23, 1915. See Acts 1915, p. 34, § 33; Bush v. State, 12 Ala. App. 260, 67 South. 847; Harrison v. State, 13 Ala. App. 354, 69 South. 383; Arrington v. State, 13 Ala. App. 359, 69 South. 385.

¶2 (2) The undisputed and direct evidence, as well as the defendant’s own admission, was to the effect that the defendant was guilty of committing the offense prohibited by section 33 of the act referred to and cited in the first paragraph, without affording an adverse inference; and the court cannot be put in error for giving the general charge, with proper hypothesis, requested by the state against the defendant. Jones v. State, 96 Ala. 56, 11 South. 192; Johnson v. State, 91 Ala. 70, 9 South. 71; Olmstead v. State, 89 Ala. 16, 7 South. 775.

¶3 (3) There was only one act or transaction shown by the evidence and the commission of but one offense, and there was no occasion for an election. Boice v. State, 10 Ala. App. 100, 65 South. 83; McCullough v. State, 63 Ala. 75.

¶4 The court committed no error in refusing the special instructions requested by the defendant.

¶5 Affirmed.

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