Case ID: ala-app_17/html/0310-02.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

(85 South. 42)
    MARTIN et al. v. STATE.
    (6 Div. 633.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    Jan. 13, 1920.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;753(2) — General Charge SHOULD BE GIVEN IN ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE Connecting Defendant with Crime.
    ■ Though the corpus delicti is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, a general charge for defendant should be given when there is no legal evidence connecting him with the commission of the crime' as charged.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Wm. E. Fort, Judge.
    Ras Martin and others were convicted of unlawfully distilling prohibited liquors, and they axipeal.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Pinkney Scott, of Bessemer, for appellants.
    J. Q. Smith, Atty. Gen., and Lamar Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BRICKEN, P. J.

We'have carefully read and considered the evidence in this case as disclosed by the record, and, while the corpus delicti is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, there is not the slightest legal evidence connecting the defendant with the commission of the crime as charged. The general charge as requested by the defendant should have been given, and for this error the judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.

Reversed and remanded.