Case ID: ala-app_25/html/0395-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SAMFORD, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

147 So. 202
    IRWIN v. STATE.
    8 Div. 576.
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    March 28, 1933.
    Wm. L. Chenault, of Russellville, for appellant.
    Thos. E. Knight, Jr., Atty. Gen., for the State.
    Brief did not reach the Reporter.
   SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant was seen to run from a house in which he was visiting. The officers who were pursuing him called him to halt, which he did not do, but continued to run in the direction of a pond of water, into and through which he ran. As defendant ran through the pond, which was about knee deep, the officers saw a splash; at the point of this splash, the officers in a few minutes found a j.ug of whisky, and about'ten feet further, in the direc-. tion in which defendant was going, was found, another jug of whisky; there was also evi'dence tending to prove that, when defendant' entered the pond, he was carrying a one-gallon' jug in each hand similar to the ones fopnd in the water. This was all in Lawrence county. When the case was here on former appeal (Ir-; win v. State, 24 Ala. App. 583, 139 So. 300),. the evidence, as shown by a bill of exceptions' which was established in this court, failed to connect the defendant with the possession, of the jugs, but in this record the evidence, if' believed beyond a reasonable doubt, affords inferences of guilt which would justify the verdict, and therefore the court did not err in refusing the general charge as requested.

Giving to the verdict of the jury and the. judgment of the trial judge the presumptions to which they are entitled, we cannot say that the court erred in refusing to set aside the-verdict.

Let the judgment be affirmed.

Affirmed.