Evans v. State

Decision Date20 January 1955
Docket Number7 Div. 263
Citation262 Ala. 701,78 So.2d 318
PartiesDoris EVANS v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

Wales W. Wallace, Jr., Columbiana, for petitioner.

Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., opposed (Code 1940, Tit. 55, § 239).

GOODWYN, Justice.

Petition of Doris Evans for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Evans v. State, 78 So.2d 315.

Writ denied.

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

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  • Beauregard v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 6, 1979
    ...(1973); Smithson v. State, 50 Ala.App. 318, 278 So.2d 766 (1973); Evans v. State, 38 Ala.App. 45, 78 So.2d 315, cert. denied, 262 Ala. 701, 78 So.2d 318 (1955). The test is not whether the defendant was prejudiced but whether he might have been. Little v. State, 339 So.2d 1071, 1072 (Ala.Cr......

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