Kimbell v. State

Decision Date16 December 1909
Citation165 Ala. 118,51 So. 16
PartiesKIMBELL v. STATE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Appeal from Circuit Court, Elmore County; W. W. Pearson, Judge.

Augie Kimbell appeals from a conviction. Affirmed.

R. H Golson, D. K. Middleton, and R. T. Goodwyn, for appellant.

Alexander M. Gar ber, Atty. Gen., for the State.

MAYFIELD J.

The indictment in this case was as follows:

"The State of Alabama, Elmore County. Circuit Court, No. ----- Special Term, 1909.
"The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Aug Kimbell, alias Augie Kimbell, an ablebodied person, did abandon his wife and children, without just cause, leaving them without sufficient means of subsistence, or in danger of becoming a public charge.
"The grand jury of said county further charge that before the finding of this indictment Aug Kimbell, alias Augie Kimbell, an able-bodied person, did abandon his wife without just cause, leaving her without sufficient means of subsistence, or in danger of becoming a public charge, against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama.
"D. D. Askew,
"Solicitor of the 15th Circuit.

"No. 2356. Grand Jury No. 70. The State of Alabama, Elmore County. Circuit Court. The State v. Augie Kimbell. Indictment. No prosecutor. State witnesses: Mrs. Annie Mae Kimbell, John Huckabee. A true bill. E. L. Thompson, Foreman of the Grand Jury.

"Presented in open court by the foreman of the grand jury in the presence of 17 other members of the grand jury this 12th day of March, A. D. 1909. McD. Cain, Clerk.

"Filed in open court this 12th day of March, 1909.

"McD. Cain, Clerk Circuit Court."

The defendant moved to quash the indictment, which motion being overruled, he then demurred to the indictment, and his demurrers were overruled. The trial resulted in conviction and sentence, from which judgment defendant appeals, here assigning as error the overruling of his motion and demurrers.

There is no bill of exceptions showing the motion or the evidence in support thereof; nor does the record affirmatively show the defects of which complaint is made. Motions to quash on grounds dehors the record, and proceedings thereunder, must be shown by bill of exceptions, in order to be reviewed on appeal. For lack of this in this case, we cannot review the action of the court on the motion to quash. Garrett v. State, 97 Ala. 18, 14 So. 327.

The indictment was good, and not subject to demurrer. While it did not follow the Code form (No. 112) for vagrancy, it was fuller than the form prescribes. It charged that the defendant did, or was guilty of, the acts which the statute defines or denounces as the crime of vagrancy. Then certainly it was sufficient, and the defendant has no...

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