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4 Ala. App. 29

Huguley v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 11, 1912

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1912-04-11

Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. Jim Huguley was convicted of murder in the second degree and he appeals. No brief reached the Reporter. The appellate court will not review the action of the trial court in refusing to grant a new trial in a criminal case. —Dorsey v. The State, 107 Ala. 157; Ferguson v. The State, 149 Ala. 21. Charges 3 and. 12 were properly refused. — Nicholson v. The State, 117 Ala. 32; Lmer v. The State, 124 Ala. 407.

Relies on Winslow v. State · Prince v. State · Herndon v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Reversed and remanded · Decided 1912-04-11

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Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1977

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PELHAM, J.

¶1The defendant, who prosecutes this appeal, was tried on an indictment charging murder in the first degree, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to serve a 12-year term of imprisonment in the penitentiary.

¶2The clothes worn by the deceased on the occasion when he was shot and killed by the defendant were sufficiently identified, and there was no error committed by the court in allowing them to be introduced in evidence on the trial.

¶3The court’s ruling on the defendant’s motion to* set aside the verdict of the jury and grant a new trial is not revisable on .appeal.—Herndon v. State, 2 Ala. App. 118, 56 South. 85; Ferguson v. State, 149 Ala. 21, 43 South. 16; Thomas v. State, 139 Ala. 80, 36 South. 734.

¶4Charge No. 10, requested in writing by the defendant and refused by the court, as set out in th'e transcript, was written in such a way as to make it difficult to decipher one of the words. This word as written in the transcript could be read either as “possibility” or “probability,” and as the correct reading of the word in this charge, after an examination of the entire record, became a matter of grave importance, this court, in order that no injustice be done, ex mero motu had a writ of certiorari issued to the court below, and had certified to us the original bill of exceptions filed in the case, in which the charge was set out, and the original charge as it appeared in the files of the court, and from an inspection of these papers there can be and is no doubt but that the correct reading of the word used in the charge is probability.

¶5The charge is as follows: “No. 10. I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that if there is, from the evidence, a reasonable probability of defendant’s innocence, the *32jury should acquit the defendant.” This charge asserts a correct proposition of law, that has been repeatedly approved, and its refusal is error that must reverse the case.—Bain v. State, 74 Ala. 38; Winslow v. State, 76 Ala. 42; Prince v. State, 100 Ala. 144, 14 South. 409, 46 Am. St. Rep. 28; Whitaker v. State, 106 Ala. 30, 17 South. 456; Bones v. State, 117 Ala. 138, 23 South. 138; Henderson v. State, 120 Ala. 360, 25 South. 236; Shaw v. State, 125 Ala. 80, 29 South. 390; Gainey v. State, 141 Ala. 72, 37 South. 355; Fleming v. State, 150 Ala. 19, 43 South. 219; John Adams v. State, 175 Ala., 57 South. 591, present term; Luther Johnson v. State, infra, 57 South. 593.

¶6We have examined each of the other refused charges, and find no error in the court’s rulings on such charges.

¶7Reversed and remanded.

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