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46 Ala. App. 235

Baker v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided October 6, 1970

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 1970-10-06

Relies on Strickland v. State · Turner v. State · Kiker v. State

Decided 1970-10-06

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

¶1Cecil Baker appeals from a conviction of the offense of assault and battery, with a sentence to hard labor for a term of four months.

¶2The evidence for the State tends to show that late in the afternoon of October 8, 1969, the defendant committed an assault and battery upon the person of Stanley Sherrill, a game warden, by shoving him. Defendant was struck in the back of the head with the officer’s pistol, necessitating seven stitches.

¶3The question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict is not presented for our review. The general affirmative charge was requested but is not endorsed “refused” and signed by the trial judge. Therefore, it cannot be considered on appeal. Kiker v. State, 233 Ala. 448, 172 So. 290; Turner v. State, 266 Ala. 250, 96 So.2d 303; Strickland v. State, 269 Ala. 573, 114 So.2d 407.

¶4Mr. Sherill, the conservation officer, testified he had confiscated birds from Bernie Robinson and a boy named Spratling and charged them before Justice of the Peace Donald Scott “with killing over the limit.”

¶5Later that afternoon the defendant appeared in front of the office of the Justice of the Peace where the officer was standing and said; “I want to talk about them birds.” The difficulty then ensued.

¶6The defendant was not shown to be connected with the killing of the birds.

¶7Evidence of conversations and transactions between third persons, not occurring in defendant’s presence, which cannot be considered within the res gestae of the offense charged in the indictment, was admitted in evidence over defendant’s objections. For this error the judgment is due to be reversed and the cause remanded.

¶8Reversed and remanded.

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