Sprinkle v. State

Decided March 9, 1979

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1979-03-09

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“"The appellant argues that the cumulative effect of the prosecutor's trial tactics creates reversible error. We have reviewed each and every allegation of error, including others not listed above, and find that the cumulative effect of these alleged errors does not demand a reversal. Some of defense counsel's objections were not well taken, other objections were not raised at trial or were not timely interposed. In some instances the trial judge sustained defense counsel's objections or instructed the jury to disregard. In other instances a ruling was not secured to the objection or motion. In certain cases the prosecutor's questions were entirely proper or at least within the discretion of the trial judge. In other cases the prosecutor's conduct may have been improper yet not prejudicial to the appellant. Since no single instance of alleged improper conduct constituted reversible error, we do not consider their cumulative effect to be any greater."”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 406 So. 2d 1045 - Farley v. State

Relies on Blue v. State · 368 So. 2d 554 - Sprinkle v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1979-03-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Coral v. State (1992), 401 So. 2d 248 - Serritt v. State (1981)

77 state decisions

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¶2The Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals,368 So.2d 554, is quashed as improvidently granted. In quashing this writ, we note that the Court of Criminal Appeals "reviewed each and every allegation of error" and found "that the cumulative effect of these alleged errors does not demand a reversal." Thus the treatment by the Court of Criminal Appeals is consistent with the principle enunciated in Blue v. State,246 Ala. 73, 19 So.2d 11 (1944).

¶3WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

¶4All the Justices concur.