Brown v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 21, 1974

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1974-11-21

Relies on 47 Ala. App. 182 - Felton v. State · Mobile Pure Milk Co. v. Coleman · O. L. Cooper v. State

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Decided 1974-11-21

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Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Hall v. State (1999), 632 So. 2d 503 - Harris v. State (1992)

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McCALL, Justice.

¶1Petition of John O. Brown for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to review and revise judgment and decision of that court in Brown v. State, 53 Ala.App. 674, 304 So.2d 17, decided August 13, 1974, is denied.

¶2In denying the petition for writ of certiorari in this case, this Court does not *747wish to be understood as approving or disapproving all of the language used or the statements of law made in the opinion of this case in the Court of Criminal Appeals. See Mobile Pure Milk Co. v. Coleman, 230 Ala. 432, 161 So. 829; Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc. v. Johnson, 286 Ala. 460, 241 So.2d 331; Cooper v. State, 287 Ala. 728, 252 So.2d 108; and Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc. v. Brindley, 289 Ala. 755, 266 So.2d 150.

¶3Writ denied.

HEFLIN, C. J., and BLOODWORTH, J., concur.COLEMAN and JONES, JJ., concur in result.