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42 Ala. App. 563

Williams v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided February 2, 1965

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1965-02-02

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1980

9 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“It could go uncontrolled in the hands of children and we can form our reasonable inference of the testimony.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 384 So. 2d 19 - Patton v. State

Relies on Roden v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1965-02-02

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PRICE, Presiding Judge.

¶1The appellant was convicted of a violation <of Title 29, Section 98, Code of Alabama, 1940.

¶2The state’s evidence tended to show that ■defendant, a clerk in a grocery store, sold .a pint of whiskey to an Alcoholic Beverage ■Control Enforcement Officer.

¶3Under the case of Roden v. State, 3 Ala.App. 202, 58 So. 72, the solicitor’s argument to the jury must work a reversal of the judgment of conviction. The solicitor ■.shed tears in front of the jury and stated, “A kid could have got it — ” Objection to this statement was overruled. He stated further: “It could go uncontrolled in the hands of children and we can form our reasonable inference of the testimony.” Objection was overruled. The court attempted to instruct the jury on the subject of “inference from the evidence.”

¶4No inference concerning children and the whiskey could be drawn from the evidence and we are of opinion the court’s instructions, instead of correcting the error, added to the injury.

¶5Reversed and remanded.

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