Vickers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1963
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cobb v. Malone
Most-quoted passages
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““We cannot say that the verdict should be disturbed as being contrary to the great weight of the evidence. ‘When the presiding judge refuses to grant a new trial, the presumption in favor of the correctness of the verdict is thereby strengthened. * * * ’ Cobb v. Malone, 92 Ala. 630 , 9 So. 738 .” Vickers v. State, ante p. 27, 151 So.2d 236 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haney v. State
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