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21 Ala. App. 463

109 So 369

Brasher v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided June 1, 1926

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1926-06-01

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1957

2 state decisions

Relies on 20 Ala. App. 7 - Glaze v. State

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Decided 1926-06-01

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¶1Defendant was convicted under an indictment in two counts charging separately manufacturing whisky and possessing a still. There was a general verdict of guilt and judgment thereon, from which defendant appeals. *464

¶2The evidence as to the material issues was in conflict. That for the state being sufficient to sustain a conviction under either count in the indictment. The general charge was therefore properly refused.

¶3The court perhaps erred in permitting the state to prove what Charlie, the other party caught at the still, said to the officers after the arrest and while all of the parties, including defendant, were walking along the road. The statement, even if heard by defendant, was not such as to call for a denial by him. But the statement in no way involved the defendant nor reflected on him in the least. The error was without injury.

¶4The court in his oral charge and in written charges given at the request of defendant covered every phase of the law of the case when correctly stated in refused charges.

¶5The other exceptions are without merit. We have read the record. The defendant has had a fair trial, without prejudicial error, and the judgment is affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

¶7

On Rehearing.
Insistence is now made that under the evidence the defendant was entitled to the affirmative charge as to count I of the indictment. This charge was properly refused for two reasons: (1) Under the evidence the defendant was attempting to distill liquor, and even if he had not actually completed the manufacture, he could have been convicted under the first count of an attempt. Code 1923, § 3307. (2) The evidence was that "They (defendant and another) had six or eight barrels of beer there ready to make liquor and the still was full of beer." If the beer was ready to make liquor it contained alcohol, and if it contained alcohol its manufacture was a violation of law. Glaze v. State, 20 Ala. App. 7, 100 So. 629.

¶8The application for rehearing is overruled,

SAMFORD, J.

¶9Defendant was convicted under an indictment in two counts charging separately manufacturing whisky and possessing a still. There was a general verdict of guilt and judgment thereon, from which defendant appeals.

¶10*464The evidence as to the material issues was in conflict. That for the state being sufficient to sustain a conviction under either count in the indictment. The general eharge was therefore properly refused.

¶11The court perhaps erred in permitting the state to prove what Charlie, the other party caught at the still, said to the officers after the arrest and while áll of the parties, including defendant, were walking along the road. The statement, even if heard by defendant, was not such as to call for -a denial by him. But' the statement in no way involved the defendant nor reflected on him in the least. The error was without injury.

¶12The court in his oral charge and in written' . charges given at the request of defendant covered every phase of the law of the case when correctly stated in refused charges.

¶13The other exceptions are without merit. We have read the record. The defendant has had a fair trial, without prejudicial error, and the judgment is affirmed.

¶14Affirmed.

¶15On Rehearing.

¶16 Insistence is now made that under the evidence the defendant was entitled to the affirmative charge as to count 1 of the indictment. This eharge was properly refused for two reasons: (1) Under the evidence the defendant was attempting to distill liquor, and even if he had not actually completed the manufacture, he could have be$n convicted under the first count of an attempt. Code 1923, § 3307. (2) The evidence was that “They (defendant and another) had six or eight barrels of beer there ready to make liquor and the still was full of beer.” If the beer was ready to make liquor it contained alcohol, and if it contained alcohol its man ufacture was a violation of law. Glaze v. State, 20 Ala. App. 7, 100 So. 629.

¶17The application for rehearing is overruled.

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