28 Ala. App. 48 - Blackman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fries v. Acme White Lead & Color Works · Lavender v. State
Most-quoted passages
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““[T]he fact that two of the animals involved were described in the testimony as ‘sows’ rather than as ‘pigs’ [as charged in the indictment] we consider of no vitiating importance. A ‘sow’ may none the less be a ‘pig’; and a ‘pig,’ doubtless, is often a ‘sow’. Or, at least, so we hold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Springfield v. State
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