Court Opinion

ID: 9825477
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:06:59.5399+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:51.983366
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
The application for rehearing in this case is confined principally to the one insistence presented by counsel for appellant to the effect that the provisions of section 9509 of the Code 1923, applies only to civil cases and not to criminal cases. In other words, it is insisted that the following quoted provision of said section does not apply in criminal cases, to wit: “The refusal of a charge, though a correct statement of the law, shall not he cause for a reversal on appeal if it appears that the same rule of law was substantially and fairly given to tbe jury in the court’s general charge or in charges given at the request of parties.”
As a complete answer to the foregoing contention more reference to Yol. 8, Alabama and Southern Digest (1809 to date), Criminal Law, @=>829(1), pages 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, and 522, wherein will be found several thousand decisions of the appellate courts of this state holding directly to the contrary.
Application for rehearing overruled.