Harrison v. State

Citation13 Ala.App. 354,69 So. 383
Decision Date15 June 1915
Docket Number377
PartiesHARRISON v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Court of Appeals

Appeal from Circuit Court, Coffee County; H.A. Pearce, Judge.

Bud Harrison was convicted of crime, and he appeals. Affirmed.

J.A Carnley, of Elba, for appellant.

W.L Martin, Atty. Gen., and W.H. Mitchell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PELHAM P.J.

The appeal in this case is on the record without a bill of exceptions. The transcript shows an indictment containing two counts for violations of the prohibition laws. The first count is confessedly good, and charges the defendant in the generally used form with having sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, or otherwise disposed of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors contrary to law. The second count is drawn under section 24 of the Fuller Bill (Acts Sp.Sess.1909 p. 86), and specifically avers that the defendant did convey or transport spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors over or along a public highway for another, but does not aver the act to have been contrary to law. Demurrers were interposed to the second count of the indictment, that were overruled by the court, taking the point, among others that the second count was bad in failing to aver the act complained of to have been unlawful, or, in other words, that the prohibited liquors were conveyed or transported contrary to law.

The charge embraced in the first count of the indictment is broad enough to cover the offense denounced by section 24 of the act referred to, under which the second count was drafted. The legal effect of the count is but to make a more specific charge of the violation of the prohibition laws covered by the first count, by averring a violation of section 24 in the language of the statute. Bush v. State, 67 So. 847.

The recitals of the judgment entry show that the defendant was convicted on the indictment of but one offense for the violation of the prohibition laws, and, the first count being a good count, not attacked, charging such an offense, it is unnecessary to review the rulings of the trial court in overruling demurrers to the second count; for, even if this ruling on the pleadings alone was erroneous, it was not error authorizing a reversal of the judgment of conviction, as under Supreme Court practice rule 45 (175 Ala. xxi, 61 South. ix), the court could not say after an examination of the entire record, which shows a good count charging the offense for which the...

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  • Coker v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Appeals
    • May 16, 1922
    ...Coleman (Ala.) 5 Port. 32; Taylor v. State, 100 Ala. 68, 14 So. 875; Rule 45, Supreme Court, 175 Ala. xxi, 61 South. ix; Harrison v. State, 13 Ala. App. 354, 69 So. 383. is made that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to give the general affirmative charge requested by t......
  • Howard v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Appeals
    • September 7, 1916
    ...... only. The first count, as has been repeatedly ruled, is in. the form prescribed by the statute and was not subject to the. demurrers. Arrington v. State, 69 So. 385, affirmed. by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Arrington, 70 So. 1012;. Bush v. State, 67 So. 847; Harrison v. State, 69 So. 383; Whaley v. State, 69 So. 384. The fourth count follows the language of section 12 of the. Bonner Anti-Shipping Law, supra, and was likewise sufficient. Kirk v. State, 70 So. 990; authorities supra. . . It may. be conceded that a passenger with. [73 So. 560] . ......
  • Burt v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Appeals
    • June 15, 1916
    ...act referred to, and the affidavit is broad enough to charge the offense denounced by that section. Bush v. State, 67 So. 847; Harrison v. State, 69 So. 383; Arrington State, 69 So. 385; Ex parte Arrington, 70 So. 1012. The charges requested by the defendant asserting, in substance, that th......
  • Arrington v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Appeals
    • June 15, 1915
    ...to, making it unlawful for any person to transport or deliver for another prohibited liquors. Bush v. State, 67 So. 847; Bud Harrison v. State, 69 So. 383; v. State, 69 So. 384. In Whaley v. State, supra, construing section 24 of the Acts of the Legislature, Sp.Sess.1909, p. 86, we said: "I......
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