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Williams v. State

Williams v. State.

Williams v. State, 189 So. 84 (Ala. 1939)
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Court
Supreme Court of Alabama · State Highest Courts
Decided
May 18, 1939
Docket
No. 6 Div. 500.
Judges
Foster, Anderson, Gardner, Bouldin
Citations
189 So. 84238 Ala. 401939 Ala. LEXIS 328
Cited by 5

Opinion of the Court — Foster

FOSTER, Justice.

Objection is made to the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the brief for petitioner in respect to that feature of it which states that the defendant having testified as a witness for himself may be questioned on cross-examination for the purpose of impeachment as to whether he had been convicted in other states of certain different crimes which involve moral turpitude.

We do not seem to have had any case in this State on the subject where the conviction was in another state. See 19 Alabama Digest, Witnesses, p. 801, ^ 337(5). But that this is not controlling seems to be well supported elsewhere. 70 Corpus Juris 854, section 1055; Herndon v. State, 72 Fla. 108 , 72 So. 833 . Section 7722, Code, is not so limited by its terms, and should not be so construed.

We need not discuss other questions argued.

Writ is denied.

ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and BOULDIN, JJ., concur.

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1946: 11949: 21950: 11975: 119462026peak 1949 · 2

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  1. Nelson v. State44 So. 2d 802 (Ala. Ct. App. 1950)
  2. Braswell v. State306 So. 2d 609 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)
  3. Stephens v. State40 So. 2d 90 (Ala. 1949)
  4. Dickey v. State26 So. 2d 532 (Ala. Ct. App. 1946)
  5. Danley v. State41 So. 2d 414 (Ala. Ct. App. 1949)

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  1. Braswell v. State306 So. 2d 609 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)
  2. Nelson v. State44 So. 2d 802 (Ala. Ct. App. 1950)
  3. Stephens v. State40 So. 2d 90 (Ala. 1949)
  4. Danley v. State41 So. 2d 414 (Ala. Ct. App. 1949)
  5. Dickey v. State26 So. 2d 532 (Ala. Ct. App. 1946)

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Herndon v. State, 72 So. 833 (Fla. 1916) 12

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