Case ID: ala-app_27/html/0371-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

172 So. 674
    O’REAR v. STATE.
    6 Div. 14.
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    Feb. 16, 1937.
    B. B. O’Rear and B. G. Wilson, both of Jasper, for appellant.
    A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and John J. Haynes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The prosecution in this case originated in the county court wherein the defendant (appellant) was tried and convicted for the offense of violating the prohibition law by having in his possession a bottle of whiskey. He appealed from the county court to the circuit court, and the record in this connection appears regular in all respects.

In the circuit court he was tried upon the complaint of the solicitor, which complaint was based upon the same charge as contained in the original affidavit. The trial in the circuit court was by jury and resulted in his conviction as charged; the jury assessed a fine of $300. Failing to pay said fine and costs, or to confess judgment therefor,-the court duly sentenced him to hard labor for the county as the statute provides. From the judgment of conviction this appeal was taken.

On the trial in the circuit court this appellant was attended by counsel, but it appears throughout the entire trial no ruling of the court was invoked. No special written charges were requested, nor was there a motion for a .new trial. Hence no point of decision is presented for our consideration on this appeal. Green v. State, 22 Ala.App. 591, 118 So. 505.

The sufficiency of the testimony to sustain ¡the judgment of conviction is not question- | ed in any manner. However, we are of the J opinion, if such question had been raised in the lower court and here, it could have ) availed the appellant nothing, -as the evi- / dence adduced upon the trial, while in conflict, was ample to sustain the burden-of proof necessary to a conviction. The record is regular.

Affirmed.