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40 Ala. App. 9

Lowe v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided January 28, 1958

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1958-01-28

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1970

4 state decisions

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Decided 1958-01-28

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¶1On Rehearing

CATES, Judge.

¶2The Attorney General contends that Mr. Dismukes did not answer the question to impeach Lowe.

¶3The record shows:

“Q. Now Mr. Dismukes, you heard the defendant testify a little earlier. I will ask you whether or not, on an occasion just prior to Christmas of last year, you stopped this Defendant and a woman, on Meighan Boulevard, in an automobile?
“Mr. Pilcher: Now we object to that question. Irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.
“Mr. Wright: Impeachment, if the Court please.
“The Court: I overrule the objection.
“Mr. Pilcher: Impeaching the Defendant witness on an immaterial and improper fact.
“The Court: I overrule the objection.
“Mr. Pilcher: And we reserve an exception.
“Q. Would you know that woman if you were to see her? A. It was a pick-up truck.
“Mr. Pilcher: We object to this. (At this point a woman was brought into the Courtroom by Mr. Burns, and said woman stood in front of the bench, the Jury and the witness box.)
“Q. Would you know that woman if you were to see her again? A. Yes, sir.
“Q. Do you see her in the Courtroom? A. Yes, sir.
“Q. Where is she? A. Right there (Pointing).”

¶4We submit a fair reading of, “It was a pick-up truck,” was an affirmative answer to both of the preceding questions with the qualification that Lowe and the woman were in a pick-up truck rather than a passenger car of the more customary type.

¶5Application overruled.

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