Childs v. State

Decision Date02 February 1967
Docket Number6 Div. 418
CitationChilds v. State, 194 So.2d 864, 280 Ala. 711 (Ala. 1967)
PartiesWillie Joe CHILDS v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

Morel Montgomery and Fred Blanton, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., opposed.

SIMPSON, Justice.

Petition of Willie Joe Childs for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision in Childs v. State, 194 So.2d 861.

Writ denied.

LIVINGSTON, C.J., and MERRILL and HARWOOD, JJ., concur.

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4 cases
  • Wilcox v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • July 29, 1980
    ...witness an accomplice in an underlying burglary or larceny. Childs v. State, 43 Ala.App. 529, 194 So.2d 861, cert. denied, Ala.App., 194 So.2d 864 (1966); Pearson v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 343 So.2d 538 (1977); Summers v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 348 So.2d 1126, cert. denied, Ala., 348 So.2d 1136 (......
  • Wright v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • June 29, 1982
    ...is not, as a matter of law, an accomplice to the thief, Childs v. State, 43 Ala.App. 529, 194 So.2d 861 (1966), cert. denied, 280 Ala. 711, 194 So.2d 864 (1967), neither is one who receives embezzled property an accomplice to the embezzler. Even assuming that Macon Brock was an accomplice t......
  • Humber v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • February 12, 1985
    ...cert. denied, Ex parte Kyles, 358 So.2d 799 (Ala.1978); Childs v. State, 43 Ala.App. 529, 532, 194 So.2d 861, cert. denied, 280 Ala. 711, 194 So.2d 864 (1966). An exception to this general rule is that "a receiver of the stolen property is an accomplice of the thief for purposes of corrobor......
  • Gaines v. State, 1 Div. 736
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • May 22, 1984
    ...indictment "it [is] immaterial who owned the building." Childs v. State, 43 Ala.App. 529, 194 So.2d 861 (1966), cert. denied, 280 Ala. 711, 194 So.2d 864 (1967); see, Love v. State, 36 Ala.App. 693, 63 So.2d 285 Moreover, the constitutional requirements for a sufficient indictment were sati......