Court Opinion

ID: 9825465
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:04:32.933099+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:51.307765
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Oñ Behearing.
The evidence of Jim Cagle, a witness for the state, that he had a conversation with the defendant two or three weeks before the shooting in which defendant said “if they didn’t’quit passing his house singing he was going to shoot them,” was not part of the res gestae, but was in the nature of a- threat against a class to which the injured party belonged (those who passed defendant’s house singing). The injured party passed the defendant’s house singing Holy Boiler songs, and, such a threat against those of that class *356to which the injured party belonged and prima facie referable to him, though his name was not mentioned, was admissible in evidence. Such a threat may be only slight evidence, yet be competent for the jury to consider in connection with the other evidence. Sharpe v. State, 193 Ala. 22, 69 So. 122; Patterson v. State, 202 Ala. 65, 79 So. 459; King v. State, 19 Ala. App. 153, 96 So. 636.
The application for rehearing is overruled.