30 Ala. App. 390 - May v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1979
12 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. State Ex Rel. Davis · Stinson v. State · Turner v. State · 29 Ala. App. 13 - Turner v. State · 29 Ala. App. 271 - Muse v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential and controlling element was the intent of the defendant in driving up and penning the cattle as aforesaid. If the defendant committed said act with a felonious intent to deprive the rightful owner of his property, the offense complained of is complete. If, on the other hand, his actions in driving up and penning the said cattle were innocent and free from any felonious intent, as he strenuously insisted, he was guilty of no wrong, hence should not have been convicted. The determination of this crucial point of decision rested with the jury, and from all the evidence adduced upon the trial the jury was under the duty to consider and decide this question. “Able and earnest counsel for appellant have filed an excellent brief in his behalf wherein several insistences of error are presented and urged to secure a reversal of the judgment of conviction from which this appeal was taken. Each of said insistences has had our careful and attentive consideration, but in view of the undisputed testimony as to the facts in this case, i. e. the admitted entering upon the lands of Ganguet where a large number of his (Ganguet’s) cattle were enclosed in a pasture, and the driving up and enclosing 17 head of the 60 or more cattle in the loading pen, which of course if this action of defendant was done with the felonious intent, as herein-above discussed, the crime of grand larceny would have been complete in its every aspect. But the defendant insisted he had no such intent, and ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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