Weakley v. State , 25 Ala. App. 694 ( 1933 )


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  • SAMFORD, Judge.

    The court has read this record en banc and has reached the conclusion that a new trial should be granted. While there is a scintilla of evidence tending to prove the corpus delicti and the defendant’s connection with five or six bottles of home brew found by the officers hidden in a trunk in an upstairs room of defendant’s residence, we do not think the evidence rises to that degree of certainty which is necessary to a conviction in a criminal case.

    The trial judge should have granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial, and for that reason the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

    Reversed and remanded.

Document Info

Docket Number: 8 Div. 654.

Citation Numbers: 147 So. 926, 25 Ala. App. 694

Judges: Samford

Filed Date: 4/4/1933

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 10/19/2024