Love v. State
Decision Date | 03 February 1953 |
Docket Number | 8 Div. 58 |
Citation | 36 Ala.App. 693,63 So.2d 285 |
Parties | LOVE v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Claud D. Scruggs, Guntersville, for appellant.
Si Garrett, Atty. Gen. and Thos. F. Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging burglary in the second degree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three years.
The State contended that a store operated by Hollis Vest and his wife was broken into on the night of August 12, and some money and a watch was taken. On October 19th the watch was seen on defendant's arm, and his arrest followed. On the trial both Mr. and Mrs. Vest identified the watch as being the one taken from the store.
Defendant and his witnesses testified he had obtained the watch in pawn from Ernest Montgomery. Defendant's Mother testified defendant was at home sick on the night of the burglary.
The evidence presented a question for the jury as to the guilt of defendant, and the motion to exclude the State's evidence and the affirmative charge were properly refused.
The possession of the building alleged to have been burglarized was laid in the husband, Hollis Vest. The grocery business was operated in said building by both husband and wife in the name of L. H. Vest Grocery. The fact that the evidence showed the legal title to be in the wife did no establish a fatal variance in the indictment and proof. Title 15, Section 245, Code 1940; Lindsey v. State, 29 Ala.App. 25, 191 So. 474; certiorari denied 238 Ala. 374, 191 So. 475; Nix v. State, 33 Ala.App. 603, 36 So.2d 452; Lowe v. State, 32 Ala.App. 176, 22 So.2d 618.
Defendant testified as a witness in his own behalf. On cross examination, the Solicitor, over objection and exception, was permitted to ask if defendant had not been sent to the reform school for breaking into places. The defendant answered: 'I went there for something they say I did.'
The court instructed the jury:
A witness, or defendant when testifying in his own behalf, may be questioned on cross examination, for the purpose of attacking his credibility as a witness, as to whether he has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. Section 434, Title 7, Code 1940; Ala.Dig., Witnesses k337(5).
The form of the interrogation in this case was not as to a former conviction for crime, but the mere fact as to whether defendant had been sent to the reform school, which would not be a proper inquiry.
Juvenile courts, under the provisions of Chapter 7 of Title 13, Code, are given the power to determine the status of children, and if a child under sixteen years is adjudicated a delinquent, the court may commit him to the care and custody of appropriate State institutions established to receive and care for delinquent children. Such State institutions are commonly referred to as reform schools.
'No child shall be denominated nor held to be a criminal by reason of any such adjudication, nor shall such adjudication be held to be or denominated a conviction.' Section 378, Title 13, Code.
'No disposition of the case of a child dealt with for delinquency under this chapter * * * shall be given or heard in any civil, criminal, or other cause or proceeding whatever, or in any other court, be lawful or proper evidence against such child * * *...
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