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7 Ala. App. 132

Gunn v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided February 13, 1913

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1913-02-13

Burglary. Appeal from Colbert Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. P. Alm'on. Willie Gunn was convicted of burglary, and be appeals. Idle evidence showed that the bouse of Mr. Walker ivas entered by way of a window, and a lady’s gold watcb and a'razor were found missing.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1950

2 state decisions

Relies on Pitman v. State · Bowen v. State · Parham v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1913-02-13

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PELHAM, J.

¶1The only errors insisted upon as requiring a reversal of the case relate to the refusal of the trial judge to give ■ the three written charges requested in behalf of the defendant.

¶2The first charge asserts a proposition as to which the Supreme Court says, in the case of Pittman v. State, 148 Ala. 612, 616, 42 South. 993, with respect to similar charges, the previous decisions of that court seem to he in some confusion. The opinion in Pittman’s Gase discusses the previous cases and limits the cases in Avhich the charge could be held proper, and excluded the case in hand. The instant case, under the ruling in Pittman’s Gase, is not one in which the charge, if ever allowable, should have been given. This same charge was condemned in Bowen’s Case, 140 Ala. 65, *13437 South. 233. See, also, Parham's Case, 147 Ala. 59, 42 South. 1, and cases there cited.

¶3The legal principle embodied in charge No. 2 refused is covered by given charge No. 3.

¶4The trial court cannot be put in error for refusing a charge that asserts no proposition of law or that asserts there is no evidence of a specific fact or state of facts (Anderson v. State, 160 Ala. 79, 49 South. 460), and the refusal of charge No. 3 could he justified for these reasons alone; hut the charge is also of doubtful applicability to all of the evidence, and the given charges show that the jury was fully instructed on the rules applying to the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence and the weight and conclusiveness to be accorded to it to justify a finding of guilty.

¶5We find no error presented by the record, and the judgment appealed from will be affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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