Case ID: ala_141/html/0578-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ANDERSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Reid v. the State.
    
      Indictment for Carrying on Business without License.
    
    1. Engaging in business of dealer of pistoi cartridges without license; when conviction not authorized. — On a trial under an indictment which, charges the defendant with engaging in or carrying on the business of a dealer in pistol cartridges w th-out a license, when there is no evidence introduced showing when the sales of pistol cartridges, testified to by the witnesses for the State, were made, it is error for the court to give at the request of the State, the general affirmative charge in favor of the State.
    Appeal from the County Court of Macon.
    Tried before the Hon. M. B. Abercrombie.
    The appellant in this case, Butler Reid, was indicted, tried and convicted for engaging in the business of a dealer iii pistol cartridges at a place not in any city, without having a license, and contrary to law.
    On tJie trial of tbe case there were several witnesses who testified that at a certain place they bought pistol cartridges front the defendant; but there is no evidence, as to when or at what place the defendant sold said cartridges to said witnesses. Upon the introduction of all the evidence, the court instructed the jury at the request of the solicitor that if they believed the evidence in the case, beyond a reasonable doubt, they should find the defendant guilty.. To the giving of this charge, the defendant duly excepted.
    No counsel marked as appearing for appellant.
    Massey Wilson, Attorney-General, for the State,
    cited AT)el v. The State, 90 Ala. 631; Kellcvr v. The State, 123 Ala. 94, 98; Bpioden v. The State, 131 Ala. 39.
   ANDERSON, J.

The defendant was tried and convicted for dealing in pistol cartridges without license.

An examination of the record fails to establish when the sale or sales took place, and the trial judge erred in giving the general charge for tlie State.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

McClellan, C. J., Tyson and Simpson, J. J., concurring.