376 So. 2d 813 - Smiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2010
5 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 Cunningham v. State · 37 Ala. App. 706 - Whatley v. State · 16 Ala. App. 176 - Carr v. State · 56 Ala. App. 414 - Burress v. State · Belk v. State
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“"We agree with the conclusion of the trial court in overruling defendant's motion to exclude the evidence on the ground that a `mere scintilla of evidence in view of the presumption of innocence is insufficient.' The trial court aptly said: "`... There's more than a scintilla of evidence here. The mere statement of this Defendant standing alone might fall under that category, but when you have witnesses to take the stand and do violence to that statement of the Defendant by saying that he and Johnny Lee Scruggs, after the fire, went around looking for Otney, that coupled with evidence about buying the shotgun shells and so on, I think makes a sure question out of it. This jury could find that Johnny Lee Scruggs was the principal movant, in this thing, but this man aided and abetted him with knowledge of everything Johnny Lee Scruggs was going to do and in fact did do. "`I just feel this is something I can't take away from the jury. I would be invading their province to overlook that much evidence. The motion will be overruled.'"”
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