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36 Ala. 268

Henry v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1860

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1860-06-15

Ekom the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before the Hon. Nat. CooK. The indictment in this case charged the prisoner, in several counts, with the murder and manslaughter of one James Griffith, a white person. — Seo the report of the case in 88 Ala. 389, where the indictment is sec out in full.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1878

1 state decisions

Relies on Farrall v. State · Brown v. State · Salomon v. State

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Decided 1860-06-15

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A. J. WALKER, C. J.

¶1The charge, for the giving of which the judgment of the circuit court was reversed in the case of Farrell v. State, (32 Ala. 557,) instructed the jury that, upon a certain hypothesis, not including proof of the venue, -‘the defendant would be guilty as charged.” The first charge in this case instructed the jury, that upon a certain hypothesis, not including proof of the venue, the defendant “would be guilty as charged.” It is utterly impossible to distinguish between the charge, in this case and the charge in Farrell v. The State, so far as it concerns the objection that it authorized a conviction without a belief on the part of the jury, from the evidence, that *270the offense was committed in the county in which the indictment was found. We are, thei efore, constrained by the authority of the case above cited, to reverse the judgment in this case. — See, also, Spaight v. State, 29 Ala. 32; Huffman v. State, 28 Ala. 48; Salomon v. State, 27 Ala. 26; Brown v. State, 27 Ala. 47.

¶2Judgment reversed, and cause remanded; and the prisoner must remain in custody, until discharged by due course of law.

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