Paul v. State, 4 Div. 420

Decision Date22 July 1971
Docket Number4 Div. 420
PartiesDanny Leon PAUL, alias v. STATE. Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. ATTORNEY GENERAL.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Joseph G.L. Marston, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Lewis V. Chesser, Andalusia, opposed.

MADDOX, Justice.

Petition of the State, by its Attorney General, for Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Paul v. State, 47 Ala.App. 115, 251 So.2d 246.

Writ denied.

LAWSON, MERRILL, HARWOOD and McCALL, JJ., concur.

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  • Johnson v. State, 6 Div. 942
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • August 20, 1985
    ... ...         The rule is similar in this state as regards prior arrests; this court in Paul v. State, 47 Ala.App. 115, 251 So.2d 246, cert. denied, 287 Ala. 739, 251 So. 248 (1971), stated: ... whom the witness was offered an opportunity to test his credibility by cross-examination and (4) given in a litigation in which the issues and parties were substantially the same as in the ... ...
  • Palmer v. State, 5 Div. 262
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 18, 1975
    ...Ala. 488, 71 So.2d 284; Loyd v. State, 279 Ala. 447, 186 So.2d 731; Paul v. State, 47 Ala.App. 115, 251 So.2d 246, cert. denied 287 Ala. 739, 251 So.2d 248; and Rule 33, Circuit and Inferior Court Rules of Practice, Title 7, Code of Alabama 1940, which provide that such general objection is......
  • Ex parte Johnson
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • October 3, 1986
    ...is similar in this state as regards prior arrests; this court in Paul v. State, 47 Ala.App. 115, 251 So.2d 246, cert. denied, 287 Ala. 739, 251 So.2d 248 (1971), stated: 'Prior arrests of the accused on other charges which have no relevancy except as tending to show his bad character are no......
  • Bland v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • January 20, 1981
    ...of this case. We do not think it so irrelevant as that evidence in Paul v. State, 47 Ala.App. 115, 251 So.2d 246, cert. denied, 287 Ala. 739, 251 So.2d 248 (1971), where a general objection was sufficient to preserve the error on review. Identification was an issue in the trial and the tria......
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