31 Ala. App. 280 - Gable v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1975
19 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 Berry v. State · Stone v. State · 25 Ala. App. 179 - Curlette v. State · 20 Ala. App. 615 - Parsons v. State · Dickson v. Dinsmore
Most-quoted passages
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““The record discloses that during the argument to the jury the following. occurred : ‘Major W. H. Long, in his argument to the jury, called for the written confessions of the defendant, and he stated to the jury, among other things, that Mr. Troup had not denied the signatures to .the written confessions, and in addition to that, Major Long stated to the jury that Mr. Troup had not denied the confession that John A. Caddell testified about. ‘Defendant moved for a mistrial because of the remarks of the Solicitor to the jury. ‘The Court stated to the Jury: ‘Gentlemen of the jury, a few minutes ago Mr. W. H. Long, Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, among other things, in his argument to the jury, made reference to a written showing that had been permitted to go to you as part of the evidence in this case — I mean a written confession instead of showing — by the defendant, and he stated to the jury that the defendant had not denied his signature to that confession, and immediately thereafter he made reference to a confession alleged to have been made by the defendant to John A. Caddell, one of the Attorneys for the City of Decatur, and the Solicitor said that there had not been any denial of that. Gentlemen of the Jury, that was an improper argument on the part of the Circuit Solicitor. It is the law that the defendant can use his own judgment and discretion as to whether or not he will take the stand. It is a constitutional right that is thrown around this defendant and i”
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