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2 Ala. App. 238

Rowe v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided December 21, 1911

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1911-12-21

Heard before Hon. John S. Curtis. Love Rowe was convicted of seining or taking fish out of season, and be appeals. Tbe conrt erred in putting tbe defendant to trial before tbe court without a jury. — 24 Cyc. 164-170; Oliver v. Herron, 106 Ala. 80. Sufficient proof of venue was not made. — Frank v, The State, 40 Ala. 9; Sparks v. The State, 59 Ala. 82; Omothorn v. The State,- 63 Ala.. 157. Counsel discusses other assignments of error, but Avithout citation of authority.

Affirmed · Decided 1911-12-21

WALKER, P. J.

¶1Tbe appellant cannot here complain of the action of the court in putting him to trial before tbe court sitting Avithout a jury, as no exception was reserved to that action of the court.—Code 1907, § 6243.

¶2Elzie Lovett, a witness for tbe state, having testified that be srav tbe defendant seining tbe creek beloAV O’Mary’s Mill in the year 1911, it was not improper to alloAV the witness to answer the follOAving question asked by the prosecuting attorney: “Was it before or *240after laying-by time?” An answer to the question would merely tend to fix the date of the occurrence in reference to which the witness had deposed.

¶3Nor is it made to appear that it was improper for the court to permit the game warden, who was the father of the witness above mentioned, to have communication with the solicitor while that witness was under examination.

¶4The bill of exceptions does not purport to set out all the evidence adduced on the trial. For anything that appears, there may have been evidence to prove the venue which is not set out. Plainly this court cannot review the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to prove the venue, when the record does not purport to set out all the evidence.

¶5Affirmed.

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