Case ID: ala-app_18/html/0545-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BRICKEN, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(93 South. 336)
    PARSONS v. STATE.
    (6. Div. 36.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    May 9, 1922.
    Rehearing Dismissed May 30, 1922.)
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; J. C. B. Gwin, Judge.
    Hoy Parsons was convicted of violating the prohibition laws, and he appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    The application for rehearing was filed by the solicitors for the court from which appeal comes, and, so far as appears from the record, no briefs were submitted on the original submission.
    The following charge was refused to the defendant: (3) “Unless you believe beyond all reasonable doubt from the evidence that the defendant.”
    The other facts sufficiently appear from the opinion.
    Pinkney Scott, of Bessemer, for appellant.
    The court erred in the admission and exclusion of evidence. 1 Mayfield, 772-774.
    Ben G. Perry, Sol., and Arthur Green, Deputj Sol., both of Bessemer, for the State.
    Brief on original submission did not reach the Reporter. Brief on rehearing, not being considered by the court, is not here set out.
   BRICKEN, P. J.

This defendant was tried and convicted under an indictment in which it was charged that he did distill, make, or manufacture alcoholic, spirituous, malted, or mixed liquors or beverages a part of which is alcoholic, etc.

This is a companion case with the case of Arthur Ellis v. State, 93 South. 334, and counsel for appellant and the state'make it known to this court that the two cases were tried together, and, while separate verdicts were rendered in each case, yet in all other respects the two are identical, and that a decision in this court in one case will of necessity govern the decision in the other case. The appeal of Arthur Ellis v. State, the companion case, has been duly considered by this court, and a decision rendered therein, the opinion being prepared by Samford, J., of this court. On authority of that case, the judgment of conviction rendered against this defendant in the court below is reversed, and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded. 
      
       Ante, p. 544.