44 Ala. App. 459 - Hammac v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. “"In a prosecution for larceny the proof must correspond with the description of the identical thing alleged in the indictment to have been taken. The court erred in denying the defendants' motion to exclude the state's evidence on the ground that the description of the property was not proved as charged in the indictments. Morris v. State , 97 Ala. 82 , 12 So. 276 ; Smith v. State , 30 Ala. App. 158 , 2 So.2d 341 ; Wright v. State , 52 Ga. App. 202 , 182 S.E. 862 ; Wilson v. State , (1956) 93 Ga. App. 375 , 91 S.E.2d 854 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 370 So. 2d 312 - Smith v. State

2. “If the witness' sentence was from an adjudication as a delinquent child . . . it would not be proper evidence against him . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 333 So. 2d 165 - Moore v. State