Case ID: ala-app_16/html/0423-01.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. 417)
    HERRING v. STATE.
    (4 Div. 507.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    April 2, 1918.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;>1122(4) — Appeal—Scope.
    The court will not review the trial court’s refusal of charges, in the absence of a hill of exceptions setting out the evidence or some of its tendencies.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Covington County; A. B. Foster, Judge.
    James Lee Herring was convicted of having carnal knowledge of a girl between the ages of 12 and 16, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    P. Loyd Tate, Atty. Gen., and Emmett S. Thigpen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BROWN, P. J.

The defendant was convicted of the offense denounced by section 7700 of the Code of 1907 as amended by act approved March 17, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 187), and as a punishment for the offense was sentenced to a term of 2 years in the penitentiary.

The appeal is on the record without a bill of exceptions; and, as we have repeatedly held the court will not review the trial court on the refusal of charges requested by the defendant, in the absence of a hill of exceptions setting out the evidence or some of its tendencies. Mitchell v. State, 14 Ala. App. 104, 71 South. 982; Dorough v. State, 14 Ala. App. 110, 72 South. 208.

The proceedings in the ease appearing of record here are, in all tilings, regular and the judgment and sentence will be affirmed.

Affirmed.