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155 Ala. 14

Stallworth v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 23, 1908

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1908-04-23

Murder. Appeal from Covington Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Pearce. Jack Stallworth, was convicted of murder, and appeals.

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Affirmed · Decided 1908-04-23

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Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1959

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SIMPSON, J.

¶1The appellant was convicted of tbe crime of murder. Tbe demurrer to tbe indictment was properly overruled. Tbe charge in tbe indictment that tbe defendant “kill” tbe deceased is so plainly a clerical mistake in leaving off “ed” that it is self-correcting; and so, also is tbe omission of tbe word “is” in tbe usual formula. “whose name is to tbe grand jury unknown.”

¶2Tbe oral request for tbe general charge, of course, could not be considered. Dannelley v. State, 130 Ala. 132, 30 South. 452. There was no error in refusing to give tbe general charge in favor of tbe defendant.

¶3Charge 5, requested by tbe defendant, besides being defective in having tbe word “of” where there should have been an “if” is also bad because it bases a failure to convict solely on tbe evidence produced by tbe prosecution ; whereas, there may have been evidence produced by tbe defendant which may have been sufficient to authorize a conviction. Hence tbe court cannot be placed in error for refusing to give this charge.

¶4Without mentioning other insufficiencies, charges 7 and 8 were properly refused, for tbe reason that neither assault and battery nor assault with intent to commit murder was involved in this case.

¶5There being no error apparent on the record, tbe judgment of tbe court is affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

*17Tyson, C. J. and Dowdell and Anderson, JJ., concur.
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