Tunstill v. State, 8 Div. 430.

Citation34 So.2d 859,250 Ala. 421
Decision Date15 April 1948
Docket Number8 Div. 430.
PartiesLouis TUNSTILL v. STATE.
CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

Certiorari to Court of Appeals.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and L. E. Barton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the petition.

Grady J. Long, of Hartselle, opposed.

LAWSON, Justice.

Petition of the State, by its Attorney General, for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in the case of Tunstill v. State, 34 So.2d 857.

Writ denied.

GARDNER, C. J., and FOSTER and STAKELY, JJ., concur.

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  • Clements v. State, 7 Div. 575
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • May 16, 1978
    ...316 So.2d 716; Tarver v. State, 53 Ala.App. 661, 303 So.2d 161; Tunstill v. State, 33 Ala.App. 460, 34 So.2d 857, cert. denied, 250 Ala. 421, 34 So.2d 859. A demand for personal property is not a required element of proof in order to make out a Prima facie case of robbery. There was suffici......
  • Mallory v. State, 6 Div. 831
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 18, 1975
    ...Harwood, then Harwood, P.J., of the former Court of Appeals, in Tunstill v. State, 33 Ala.App. 460, 34 So.2d 857, cert. denied 250 Ala. 421, 34 So.2d 859, '. . . Thomas v. State, 91 Ala. 34, 9 So. 81, 82, contains an excellent discussion by Justice McClellan of the offense of robbery. There......
  • Dixon v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • March 7, 1978
    ...employed. We do not agree. This Court, through Judge Harwood, in Tunstill v. State, 33 Ala.App. 460, 34 So.2d 857, cert. denied 250 Ala. 421, 34 So.2d 859; and through Judge Harris, in Tarver v. State, 53 Ala.App. 661, 303 So.2d 161, fully set forth the essential elements of the offense of ......
  • Beverly v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • May 31, 1983
    ...the act by which possession of the property is acquired. Tunstill v. State, 33 Ala.App. 460, 463, 34 So.2d 857, cert. denied, 250 Ala. 421, 34 So.2d 859 (1948). Here, the State failed to prove that Deroo was deprived of his backpack by force or fear as charged in the The issue presented was......
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