41 Ala. App. 421 - Crowden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
September 1979
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stover v. State · Sparrenberger v. State · De Moville v. Merchants & Farmers Bank · Fulton v. Longshore · Riley v. Wilkinson
Most-quoted passages
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““The established rule is: ‘When it appears witnesses were examined by the grand jury, or the jury had before them legal documentary evidence, no inquiry into the sufficiency of the evidence is indulged.’ Sparrenberger v. State, 53 Ala. 481 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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