Smothers v. State, 6 Div. 886

Citation83 So.2d 376,263 Ala. 701
Decision Date12 May 1955
Docket Number6 Div. 886
PartiesGeorge SMOTHERS v. STATE.
CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

Jack H. McGuire, Tuscaloosa, Alex. Smith, Jr., and David McKay Enslen, Fayette, for petitioner.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Robt. Straub, Asst. Atty. Gen., opposed.

MERRILL, Justice.

Petition of George Smothers for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Smothers v. State, 83 So.2d 374.

Writ denied.

LIVINGSTON, C. J., and LAWSON and STAKELY, JJ., concur.

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  • Watson v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • October 7, 1980
    ...any specific fact about which the accomplice has testified. Smothers v. State, 38 Ala.App. 153, 83 So.2d 374, cert. denied, 263 Ala. 701, 83 So.2d 376 (1955). Yet, unlike the evidence required to corroborate accomplice testimony, the corroborative evidence required to establish perjury must......
  • McCoy v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • February 3, 1981
    ...1230 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 344 So.2d 1235 (Ala.1977); Smothers v. State, 38 Ala.App. 153, 83 So.2d 374, cert. denied, 263 Ala. 701, 83 So.2d 376 (1955); Morris v. State, 25 Ala.App. 156, 142 So. 592 (1932), where the corroborating evidence consisted of the testimony of the wife of an......
  • Dudley v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • February 1, 1977
    ...(1969); Patterson v. State, 45 Ala.App. 229, 228 So.2d 843 (1969); Smothers v. State, 38 Ala.App. 153, 83 So.2d 374, cert. denied 263 Ala. 701, 83 So.2d 376 '(3) Corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice need not be sufficiently strong of itself to support a conviction, and it is suff......
  • Cunningham v. State, 3 Div. 307
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • April 22, 1975
    ...(1969); Patterson v. State, 45 Ala.App. 229, 228 So.2d 843 (1969); Smothers v. State, 38 Ala.App. 153, 83 So.2d 374, cert. denied 263 Ala. 701, 83 So.2d 376 Corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice need not be sufficiently strong of itself to support a conviction, and it is sufficien......
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