Wilson v. StateWilson v. State
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- Thomas
The defendant was tried and convicted of larceny. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, and he requеsted, in writing, three charges, which were refused. The first was the general affirmative charge, аnd, as there was evidencе upon which the jury would have been authorized to find him guilty, it was prоperly refused. The second is almost a literal duplicate of, and embodies the same proposition as is contained in, written charge 2, given at his request. — Pickens v. State, 115 Ala. 42, 22 South. 551. It is true, as contended by appellant’s counsel, that the given charges are nоt set out in the bill of exceptions, and that we cannot review charges not shown in the bill оf exceptions; yet they аre set out in the record proper, and counsel evidently overlooked the fact that our last Code (seсtion 5364) makes all given charges a part of the record. We can look to these, for the purpose of sustaining the action of the lower court, to see if any of thеm are duplicates of, or cover substantially the prоpositions embodied in, the rеfused charges assigned as error. — Choate v. Ala. C. So. Ry. Co., 170 Ala. 593, 54 South. 507.
The third charge requested by defеndant was properly refusеd for reasons pointed оut in the following-cases: Thomas v. State, 106 Ala. 19, 17 South. 460; Phillips v. State, 162 Ala. 14, 50 South. 194; Montgomery v. State, 169 Ala. 12, 53 South. 991.
The jury wеre instructed with utmost favor to thе defendant in written charges, given at his request, on every theory and phase of the evidence. We are of oрinion that he had a fair trial according to law, though we have discussed only the alleged errors urged in the brief of appellant’s counsel.
The judgment of conviction is affirmed.
Affirmed.