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274 Ala. 569

150 So.2d 710

Edwards v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 28, 1963

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1963-02-28

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“Substantial error is not presumed, but the burden is upon the appellant to show error.”

quoted by 4 later decisions, including Morrison v. State, 530 So. 2d 894 - Reeves v. State

Relies on Fuller v. State · Kabase v. State · McCall v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1963-02-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably 366 So. 2d 336 - Summers v. State (1978), Ex Parte Rudolph (1964)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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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.

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MERRILL, Justice.

¶1 This appeal is from a judgment denying an application for a writ of error coram nobis after a hearing.

¶2 The defendant was tried and convicted of the offense of first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary on April 27, 1957. No motion for a new trial was made and no appeal was taken to this court. The defendant was represented by four able attorneys on his trial.

¶3 The application for writ of error córam nobis was filed July 11, 1962, and after a motion to dismiss the application was over-» ruled, the cause was set for hearing on October 10, and two qualified attorneys were appointed as counsel to represent defendant, one of whom had represented him at his trial. The court also ordered that defendant be brought to Columbiana on September 27, in order that he might prepare his case.

¶4 *570 A part of the court’s order denying the application .‘reads;'

“On this hearing only testimony was submitted to the court by.' witnesses who testified at, the main trial of this case. No facts were brought to the knowledge of the Court, which were not previously kpown, nor in the trial of this ca.se which would have prevented the rendition of the judgment as rendered in the case — -no facts were presented such as would have prevented a conviction on the trial of the case.
“It is, therefore, the judgment of the Court that the application for writ of error coram nobis is not well taken.”

¶5 There'is nothing in the record before us which even slightly indicates that the judgment of the lower court was not correct.

¶6 Substantial -error is not presumed, but the burden is upon the appellant to show error. Kabase v. State, 244 Ala. 182, 12 So.2d 766; McCall v. State, 262 Ala. 414, 79 So.2d 51; Fuller v. State, 269 Ala. 312, 113 So.2d 153; Cook v. State, 269 Ala. 646, 115 So.2d 101.

¶7 Affirmed.

LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and HARWOOD, JJ., concur.
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