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23 Ala. App. 255

123 So 280

Morris v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided June 29, 1929

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1929-06-29

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1948

3 state decisions

Relies on 23 Ala. App. 79 - Jones v. State

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Decided 1929-06-29

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RICE, J.

¶1 The court has considered this case, sitting en banc, i. e., we have read the entire evidence in that manner. We are of the opinion that the ruling of the trial court permitting the witness May to testify, over timely and proper objection, that the goods found in the possession of appellant were “stolen from the store” of witness, constituted reversible eri-or. Jones v. State, ante, p. 79, 121 So. 6.

¶2 Without this illegal testimony, there would have been nothing tending to prove the corpus delicti, in which state of the case, of course, the confession of appellant would not have been admissible in evidence.

¶3 The judgment of conviction is reversed, and the cause remanded.

¶4 Reversed and remanded.

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