40 Ala. App. 373 - Moody v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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1. ““Wide latitude is given the solicitor in making reply to argument previously made by appellant’s counsel. The ruling of the court was without error, York v. State, 34 Ala.App. 188 , 39 So.2d 694 , certiorari denied 252 Ala. 158 , 39 So.2d 697 ; Gills v. State, 35 Ala.App. 119 , 45 So.2d 44 , certiorari denied 253 Ala. 283 , 45 So.2d 51 ; Windham v. State, 35 Ala.App. 547 , 50 So.2d 288 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dossey v. State · 46 Ala. App. 637 - Lane v. State

2. ““Appellant, James H. Moody, was in-..dieted for murder.in the first.degree’for . the fatal shooting of his fifteen-year-old stepson. This is the second appeal in this case. On the first trial defendant interposed pleas of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Pie was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment in the penitentiary. “On appeal the cause was reversed and remanded for the refusal of the trial court to admit certain evidence as to defendant’s mental condition. Moody v. State, 267 Ala. 204 , 100 So. 2d 733 . “After remandment trial was had on defendant’s plea of ‘not guilty,’ resulting in conviction of murder in the second degree and punishment fixed at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Moody