Bevins v. State

Decision Date24 October 1957
Docket Number8 Div. 933
PartiesElbert BEVINS v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Robt. G. Kilgore, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the petition.

Powell & Powell, Decatur, opposed.

COLEMAN, Justice.

Petition of the State, by its Attorney General, for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Bevins v. State, 97 So.2d 572, wherein a judgment of conviction of grand larceny was reversed.

Writ denied.

LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and GOODWYN, JJ., concur.

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  • Smith v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 24 Agosto 1990
    ...unsupported by any evidence in the case, require reversal. Bevins v. State, 39 Ala.App. 228, 229, 97 So.2d 572, cert. denied, 266 Ala. 695, 97 So.2d 574 (1957).' Whisenhant, 482 So.2d at 1239 (quoting Moreland v. State, 373 So.2d 1259, 1262-63 (Ala.Cr.App.1979)). The appellant claims that t......
  • Smith v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 31 Agosto 2007
    ...unsupported by any evidence in the case require reversal. Bevins v. State, 39 Ala.App. 228, 229, 97 So.2d 572, cert. denied, 266 Ala. 695, 97 So.2d 574 (1957) ; Moreland v. State, 373 So.2d 1259, 1262, 1263 (Ala.Cr.App.1979), Whisenhant v. State, 482 So.2d 1225 (Ala.Cr.App.1982)."This is a ......
  • Smith v. State, No. CR-97-1258 (Ala. Crim. App. 1/16/2009)
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 16 Enero 2009
    ...unsupported by any evidence in the case require reversal. Bevins v. State, 39 Ala. App. 228, 229, 97 So. 2d 572, cert. denied, 266 Ala. 695, 97 So. 2d 574 (1957); Moreland v. State, 373 So. 2d 1259, 1262, 1263 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979), Whisenhant v. State, 482 So. 2d 1225 (Ala.Cr.App. "This is a ......
  • Whisenhant v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 23 Noviembre 1982
    ...unsupported by any evidence in the case, require reversal. Bevins v. State, 39 Ala.App. 228, 229, 97 So.2d 572, cert. denied, 266 Ala. 695, 97 So.2d 574 (1957)." 373 So.2d at Because these remarks were made after the completion of the guilt stage of the bifurcated trial, they created no err......
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