Case ID: ala-app_27/html/0175-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "RICE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

168 So. 225
    HOWARD v. STATE.
    4 Div. 214.
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    May 12, 1936.
    Roy L. Smith, of Phenix City, for appellant.
    A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., for the State.
   RICE, Judge.

The court has read, studied, and considered the record, and decided the question controlling, in this case, sitting en banc.

The law now is that: “To authorize submission of criminal case to jury, there must be substantial evidence tending to prove all elements of charge; mere scintilla of evidence, in view of presumption of innocence, being insufficient.” (Italics ours.) Ex parte Grimmett, 228 Ala. 1, 152 So. 263.

Applying the above rule to the evidence in this record, it is clear that the. court erred in refusing to give to the jury at appellant’s proper request the written charge to find in her favor.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.