Case ID: ala-app_16/html/0454-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BROWN, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(78 South. 717)
    RICHARDSON v. STATE.
    (1 Div. 284.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    April 16, 1918.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;1167(5) — Harmless Error —Rulings on Demurrer.
    Errors in rulings on demurrers to a complaint are harmless, where counts demurred to are afterwards eliminated on a plea of autrefois acquit.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Monroe County; Ben D.'Turner, Judge.
    Thee Richardson was convicted of assault with a pistpl, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    See, also, ante, p. 81, 75 South. 629.
    L. S. Biggs, of Monroeville, for appellant. P. Loyd Tate, Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BROWN, P. J.

After defendant’s demurrers to the complaint were overruled, he filed a plea of autrefois acquit as to the first, second, third, and fifth counts, and this plea was confessed hy the state, thus eliminating all counts of the complaint except the fourth, so if error intervened in the rulings on the demurrers, it was error without injury. As to count 4, the defendant pleadéd not guilty, was tried and convicted, and appeals on the record without a bill of exceptions.

Aside from the rulings above noted, the record appears to be in all things regular and free from error.

Affirmed.