36 Ala. 297
Decided June 15, 1860
Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1860-06-15
From the Circuit Court of Lauderdale, Tried before the Hou. ¥m, S. Mudd.
Relies on Easterling v. State · Downman v. State · Brown v. State
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1860-06-15
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1892
3 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.
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¶1It is clear that, under section 1058 of the Code, neither the fact that the liquor was drunk in the State of Tennessee, nor that the drinking took place on lands over which the defendant had no control, would, as matter of law, require the acquittal of the accused. See Easterling v. The State, 30 Ala. 46; Downman v. The State, 14 Ala. 243; Brown v. The State, 31 Ala. 353.
¶2Judgment of the circuit court affirmed.