Court Opinion

ID: 9824741
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:14:47.981122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:01.101240
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ON REHEARING.
(3) It is insisted by appellant’s counsel that a rehearing should be granted in this matter because, when one of the alternative averments was stricken out of the affidavit, as indicated in the opinion supra, the affidavit thus amended was not reverified; and counsel insists “defendant was placed on trial upon a criminal charge unsupported by oath.” We cannot assent to this view. The affidavit contained two charges, to wit: Carrying a pistol: (1) Concealed about defendant’s person; and (or) (2) on premises not his own or under his control; these two charges or separate offenses being laid in the alternative, as authorized by section 7151, Code 1907. The striking of one charge did not alter the sense nor import anything into the
*104affidavit; on the contrary, subtracted therefrom, and placed appellant upon trial to answer for one instead of two offenses. In McQueen’s Case, 141 Ala. 100, 37 South. 360, Dowdell, J., said: “The prosecution in this case was under section 4751 of the Criminal Code, and was begun by affidavit and warrant. The affidavit as originally made, charged, among other things, that the confession of judgment by the surety with the defendant was for the ‘fine and costs,’ and for which the defendant contracted in writing with his surety under the statute to work out. On the trial, against the objection of the defendant, the court allowed the affidavit to be amended by striking out the words ‘fine and,’ and this was done without a reverification. The affidavit after the amendment contained nothing more than the original. No additional statement of facts was made, and hence no reverification was required.”
Application denied.