Berness v. State

Decision Date09 October 1958
Docket Number8 Div. 945
Citation113 So.2d 183,269 Ala. 694
PartiesFrancis Louis BERNESS v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

T. Eugene Burts, Florence, for petitioner.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Edmon L. Rinehart, Asst. Atty. Gen., opposed.

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Petition of Francis Louis Berness for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Berness v. State, 113 So.2d 178.

Writ denied.

LAWSON, STAKELY and MERRILL, JJ., concur.

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  • Jackson v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 29, 2013
    ...Stokley v. State, [254 Ala. 534, 49 So. 2d 284 (1951)]; Berness v. State, 40 Ala. App. 198, 113 So.2d 178, cert. denied, 269 Ala. 694, 113 So.2d 183 (1959). 'In the gestative stage those who act jointly in and about the commission of a crime are denoted as conspirators. ... Our penal code m......
  • Jackson v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • December 17, 2010
    ...v. State, [254 Ala. 534, 49 So.2d 284 (1951) ]; Berness v. State, 40 Ala.App. 198, 113 So.2d 178 [ (1958) ], cert. denied, 269 Ala. 694, 113 So.2d 183 (1959). ‘In the gestative stage those who act jointly in and about the commission of a crime are denoted as conspirators.... Our penal code ......
  • Morgan v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • October 3, 1978
    ...reversed on other grounds, 270 Ala. 448, 120 So.2d 124 (1960); Berness v. State, 40 Ala.App. 198, 113 So.2d 178, cert. denied, 269 Ala. 694, 113 So.2d 183 (1959); Burton v. State, 8 Ala.App. 295, 62 So. 394 (1913). Therefore the failure of the trial court to exclude the state's evidence bec......
  • Hall v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 27, 1973
    ...than may be visited on the other who is also found guilty. Berness v. State, 40 Ala.App. 198, 113 So.2d 178, cert. denied 269 Ala. 694, 113 So.2d 183. The appellant and Laster, by submitting to a joint trial, could not deprive the prosecution of the right to offer inculpatory evidence again......
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