30 Ala. App. 552 - Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), 31 Ala. App. 77 - Kabase v. State (1943)
40 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 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen · Rollings v. State · F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Erickson
Most-quoted passages
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““The first insistence of error is that venue was established by hearsay evidence. The prosecutrix testified that, after the alleged attack, she and defendant used a towel (given her by defendant) and that she threw it out of the car before they left the scene for the return trip home. “Several days later, she and Detective Howell found the towel at this place which, according to Howell, was about half way between Mohler’s Hot House and Hollis’ Dairy. Witness McAdory then testified that these two points and the intervening territory between them (and where he found the towel) were all within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, Bessemer Division. This competently-showed the proper venue as in the Bessemer cut-off. “Venue, as any other fact, may be established by either direct or circumstantial evidence, and the proof is sufficient if, from the facts and circumstances adduced, it can be reasonably inferred. Goodwin v. State, 27 Ala.App. 493 , 175 So. 415 ; Smith v. State, 21 Ala.App. 497 , 109 So. 530 ; McGrew v. State, 21 Ala.App. 266 , 107 So. 328 ; Palmer v. State, 168 Ala. 124 , 53 So. 283 ; Tinney v. State, 111 Ala. 74 , 20 So. 597 . “The proof of venue was not rendered hearsay because the prosecutrix said she threw out the towel at the scene. The towel merely identified the place of the alleged crime, which was proved to be between the two aforementioned points and in the Bessemer Division. Her testimony as to the towel was but a link in the”
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