Case ID: ala_292/html/0112-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McCALL, Justice. \n      BLOOD WORTH, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

289 So.2d 801
    In re Johnny JOHNSON, alias v. STATE. Ex parte Johnny Johnson, alias.
    SC 625.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Jan. 24, 1974.
    Rehearing Denied Feb. 28, 1974.
    Ian F. Gaston, and J. D. Quinlivan, Jr., Mobile, for petitioner.
    No brief for the State.
   McCALL, Justice.

The defendant in the trial court petitions for a writ of certiorari to review and revise the opinion and judgment which that court rendered in Johnson, alias v. State, 51 Ala.App. 330, 285 So.2d 493 [1973], He contends that the court erred in holding that the petitioner’s charge No. 4 was properly refused, because the use of “all” exacted too high a degree of proof to justify a conviction.

In denying the writ, we dp not wish to be understood as holding that this criticism rendered the charge bad. An examination of the record reveals though that the same rule of law, here involved, was substantially and fairly covered in the court’s oral charge to the jury. Therefore, the refusal of charge No. 4 was without error.

Writ denied.

HEFLIN, C. J., and COLEMAN and JONES, JJ., concur.

BLOODWORTH, J., concurs in the result.

BLOOD WORTH, Justice

(concurring in the result):

I concur in denying the writ. I agree with Mr. Justice McCall that this charge was properly refused because it was “covered” by the oral charge. I also think it was properly refused because of the use of the work “all” as the Court of Criminal Appeals held in the opinion authored by Judge Harris.