Court Opinion

ID: 9825531
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:18:05.252439+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:56.839363
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
We are urged, in the application for rehearing, to re-examine several questions presented in this case. This we have done, and we find no reason to efiange tfie conclusion heretofore announced.
First. It is insisted that in stating the case upon the facts this court seemed to entirely overlook evidence offered by the defendant as to his whereabouts on or about the hour deceased came to his death. This insistence is not at all well founded, for all the evidence has béen carefully examined and the seeming conflicts noted, and this court held, and now reaffirms, that these questions! wrere for the jury, and that they were properly submitted to the jury for its consideration,, aud that the lower court did not err in so doing.
Second. We again announce and hold that (lie court properly overruled the defendant’s motion to quash the venire. The record affirmatively shows that the regular juror Willie Hinsliaw had not been summoned at the time of the compliance with the order of the court to forthwith serve upon the defendant a list of the names of the jurors drawn and summoned for the week of the court in which this case was set for trial and a list of the special jurors drawn in this case, together with a copy of the indictment against him, etc. The fact that said Juror Hinsliaw was afterwards found, and was in attendance upon court, could in no sense be taken as a meritorious ground for a motion to quash the venire. In addition to this, it was announced by the court that Juror Hinshaw would not be put upon the defendant as a juror over his objection, and the defendant declined the privilege- offered, and refused to object or to challenge said juror for cause.
Third. Under the authorities cited in the opinion, this court holds that the rulings of the court in connection with the effort to show that another than the defendant committed the offense of which he was charged were free from error, and the conclusions as announced are sound.
Fourth. There is no merit in the insistence that the court erred in its ruling upon the testimony of witness Phipps. This witness had testified that the dogs used upon this occasion were blooded dogs, and were trained for trailing human beings, etc. .The defendant declined to avail himself of the privilege granted by the court to inquire into tlie training and capacity of the dogs in question, for under tlie permission granted by tbe court an almost unlimited scope of inquiry with reference to witness’ knowledge of the dogs, their caxiacity, etc., was accorded the defendant, of which he did not take advantage.
Fifth. The ruling of the court on the testimony of defendant's witness Lem Jones, a brother of defendant, was without error. A proper predicate had been laid, and it was proper to prove the predicate by witness D. O. Austin. 1 Mayf. Dig. 888, § 244; Burton v. State, 115 Ala. 1, 22 South. 585.
The apxilication for rehearing is denied.
Axiplication denied.