Case ID: ala-app_20/html/0154-01.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

(101 So. 159)
    HEMPHILL v. STATE.
    (7 Div. 971.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    July 22, 1924.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;753(2)— General affirmative charge for defendant held erroneously refused.
    Court erred in refusing general affirmative charge for defendant where state failed to meet burden of proof resting upon it, and evidence offered was not sufficient to overcome presumption of innocence.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, De Kalb County; W. W. Haralson, Judge.
    William Hemphill was convicted of an offense, and he appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    C. A. Wolfes, of Ft. Payne, for appellant.
    Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BRICKEN, P. J.

The evidence in this case, in the opinion of this court, is wholly insufficient to support the verdict of the jury and to sustain the judgment of conviction from which this appeal is taken. Under the rule announced in the case of Newt Wilson v. State (Ala. App.) 100 South. 914, the state failed to meet the burden of proof resting upon it, and the evidence offered was not sufficient to overcome the presumption of innocence which under the law attended this defendant upon his trial.

The court erred in refusing the general affirmative charge requested. The judgment is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded. 
      
       Ante, p. 62.