Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

218 Ala. 363

118 So 506

Green v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 4, 1928

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1928-10-04

Relies on White v. State · Wade v. State · Ex Parte Wade

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1928-10-04

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1979

4 state decisions

20192819301940195019601970decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

GARDNER, J.

¶1 The ease of Wade v. State, 207 Ala. 1, 92 So. 101 (see, also, Wade v. State, 207 Ala. 241, 92 So. 104), is not applicable to the situation here presented. That authority dealt with a constitutional right that could not be waived, and, as pointed out in White v. State, 209 Ala. 546, 96 So. 709, an-infringement of which by the order of the court affirmatively appeared upon the record.

¶2 In the instant case petitioner had the constitutional right not to be compelled to give evidence against himself, but this right could be waived by taking the stand and becoming a witness. The statement of the court in the oral charge that defendant did not deny the charge was but an indirect infringement of his constitutional right, and, to present the same -for. consideration in an appellate tribunal, we are of the opinion an exception was necessary to be reserved.

¶3 The writ is denied.

ANDERSON, C. J., 'and BOULDIN and FOSTER, JJ., concur. '
/218/ala/363 · .json · Public domain