35 Ala. App. 376 - Chesnut v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2006
24 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 Howard v. State · Jackson v. State · Childs v. State · Bowen v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"There can be no trial on the merits in a criminal case until the defendant has pleaded not guilty, or this plea has been entered for him by the court * * *" Chesnut v. State, supra, 47 So.2d 248 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““JURY VERDICT AND JUDGMENT OF THE COURT “On this 2nd day of August, 1972, in open Court came the State of Alabama by its District Attorney, and the Defendant in his own proper person, and with his attorney, and the Defendant in open Court on this day being arraigned on the indictment in this case charging him with the offense of Grand Larceny, Embezzlement, Buying, Receiving, Cone. Stolen property. “Now on this 20th day of September, 1973, the trial of this case having been regularly set for this day, thereupon, in Open Court on this day in the presence of the District Attorney, Defendant’s Attorney, and Defendant, came a jury of good and lawful men and women, to-wit: “J. H. Snowden, Foreman, and eleven others, who having heard the evidence and the charge of the Court, upon their oaths, in open Court on this day in the presence of the District Attorney, Defendant’s Attorney, and Defendant, so say: ‘WE, THE JURY, FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY AS CHARGED UNDER COUNT 1 OF THE INDICTMENT. J. H. Snowden, Foreman.’ “Thereupon, in open Court on the 20th day of September, 1973, the Defendant being asked by the Court if he had anything to say why the judgment and sentence of the law should not be passed upon him replied: ‘He had not.’ “It is therefore, considered and adjudged by the Court that the Defendant is guilty of the offense of Embezzlement, as charged in the indictment, and that the State of Alabama, for the use of Covington County, have and recover of the Defendant the cost of th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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