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154 Ala. 48

Moore v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 6, 1908

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1908-02-06

Heard before Hon. Alto V. Lee. George Moore was convicted of assault and battery, and he appeals. Appellant was indicted for assault with intent to murder, convicted of assault and 'battery, and fined $250 by the jury. The court added six months’ hard labor as a punishment. From this judgment the defendant appeals, and assigns as error the action of the court in adding the hard labor sentence, certain objections to evidence, and the refusal to give certain charges.

Relies on Gunter v. State · Brown v. State

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Affirmed · Decided 1908-02-06

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1992

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DOWDELL, J.

¶1The defendant was indicted for an assault with intent to murder, and was convicted of an assault and battery.

¶2The objection to the question asked the witness Crittenden was properly overruled. The objection was general, and the evidence called for was not patently irrelevant. Gunter v. State, 111 Ala. 23, 20 South. 632, 56 Am. St. Rep. 17. Besides, we think the evidence called for by the question was relevant. That the question was leading furnishes no ground for putting the trial court in error in overruling the objection.

¶3There was sufficient evidence upon which to submit the question of defendant’s guilt to the jury; and hence charges 1, 2, and 3, requested by the defendant, were properly refused. The defendant was convicted of an assault and battery. Malice is not an ingredient of this offense, and hence the refusal of charge 4 worked no injury to the defendant. The same may be said as to charge 5. Charge 6, as set out in the record, uses the word “defendant” where doubtless the name of the assaulted party was intended, which made the charge bad, if otherwise good, and justified the court in its refusal.

¶4There was no error in the court’s imposing six months’ additional hard labor to' the fine imposed by the jury.— Brown v. State, 141 Ala. 80, 37 South. 408; Code 1896, §§ 4343, 5415.

¶5Affirmed.

Tyson, C. J., and Anderson and McClellan, JJ., concur.
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