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4 Ala. App. 154

Stearns v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided February 6, 1912

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1912-02-06

Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Ben Stearne.was convicted of violating the prohibition law, and he appeals. No brief reached the Reporter. The defendant was properly convicted under the evidence on the indictment. — Winter v. The State, 132 Ala. 32; Bond v. The State, 130 Ala. 117; Darrington v. The State, 162 Ala. 60; Rayfield v. The State, 167 Ala. 94; Section 33, Acts 1909, p. 94.

Relies on Griffin v. State · Luke v. Calhoun County · McCormack Harvesting Machine Co. v. Lowe

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Affirmed · Decided 1912-02-06

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db GRAFFENRIED, J.

¶1It has been frequently held that when the facts, although undisputed, are such that reasonable men may reasonably and conscientiously arrive at opposite conclusions from them, such facts present, not a question of law for the court, but a question of fact for the determination of the jury.Luke v. Calhoun County, 52 Ala. 115; Cole v. Propst, 119 Ala. 99, 24 South. 884; Abbott v. Mobile, 119 Ala. 595, 24 South. 565.

¶2The evidence, considered in the light most favorable to the defendant, shows that he was the assisting friend of either the buyer or the seller of the liquor, and the assisting friend in such a transaction may now be convicted upon evidence showing that he was merely such assisting friend, upon an indictment charging him with an unlawful sale of liquor.—General and Local Acts Special Session 1909, p. 94, § 33; Andrew Boyd v. State, 3 Ala. App. 178, 57 South. 1019. The court, therefore, properly refused to give to the jury the general affirmative charge requested in writing by the defendant.—Medley v. State, 156 Ala. 78, 47 South. 218; Griffin v. State, 150 Ala. 49, 43 South. 197; McCormack Co. v. Lowe, 151 Ala. 313, 44 South. 47.

¶3The judgment of the court beloiv is affirmed.

¶4Affirmed.

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