333 So. 2d 861 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Radke v. State · 46 Ala. App. 722 - Parks v. State · 49 Ala. App. 654 - Daniels v. State · Pinkerton v. State · 30 Ala. App. 94 - Green v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Where, as here, the presence of the accused at the scene is established by both direct and circumstantial evidence, and the evidence of the accused's knowledge of the presence of the prohibited substance is shown together with other incriminating evidence, the issue of the defendant's guilt should be submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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