Fact Sheet on University Mississippi Desegregation Suit

    JORDAN v. STATE
Cite ns 318 So.2d 793

Ala. 793

Reversed and renranded.

CATES, P. J., and ALMON, TYSON
and HARRIS, JJ., concur.

DeCARLO, J., dissents.

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I l6l Evidence of flight of a defendant numerary circuit Judge, serving as a judge
fr()trr the st:ene of the crinre is admissible of this Court under $ 2 of Act No. 2gg,
irs;r cirt:unrstance to shorv guilt, Wolters July 7, 1945, as amended; his opinion is
1.. .!/o/c, 2-l Ala.App. 370, 135 So. 600; hereby adopted as that of the Court.
.tlc.llli-stcr z'. Stote, 30 Ala.App. 366, 6 So.

2,g .i2: I-ance o. Stote, 28 Ala.App. 571,

l,)() So. 108; Alabama Digest, Volume 6,

L'rirninal Larv, €3.5I(3).

\\'e conclude that the trial court did not
crr in dcclining to e-xclude the evidence.
'l'lrc guilt or innocence of the defendant
rr;rs a jttry question.

IX.

ll ;rppcars that the court gave a very
,,)nrprehcnsivc oral charge; also he gave
(.rght \\'ritten charges requestcd by the de-
r(.n(lilrrt arrd refused thirty-one. We have
rt vit s'cd each of the thirty-one refused
, h;rrgcs, and it is our opinion that they
rlrc correctly refuscd, for that they stated
, rllr('r :ul incorrect principle of larr', rvere
,:r;i1r1,lic;rlrlc to tht evidence in the case,
',\ r r( :rlrstr:lct, or \\'ere substantially coYer-
,,1 lr.r thc oral charge and thc givcn
,lr;rrgcs. \\'e ornit discussing thc individu-
,rl clr:rrges because it *'ould e.rtend this
,,lrirrirrrr beyond reasonablc Icngth. We
l,;irticrrlarl)' refer to the request for thc af-
lrrrrr;rtive charge as being correctly
rt'frrsctl. The grrilt or innocerrce of the de-
i('rl(l;ull s as a jury qucstion.

llt'cause the trial corlrt r(.stricted thc de-
ft'rr<l:urt's cross-exatnination of the state's
,,rrl-v c)'e-rvitness, IIrs. Froney, relating to
tirc stiprrlated transcribed statenrcnt taken
oti:r tapc recorder by ccrtain officers of
the law, it is our opinion that thc trial
t'orrrt committed reversible error. The rec-
,,rrl othcrs'ise is frec of error.

It is ordered that thc jrrdgment of thc
t',tttrt. corrvicting the defendant, bc and the
',rtrit, is herebl, reversed and remanded for
; tt tl 1 1' Irr,rt.t.ttlitt1rs.

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Karen Elalne JORDAN, altas

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STATE.

5 Div. t4t.

(:olrrt of Crirninll Appt'als of Alnbauta.

Oct. 1, 197.1.

Ilolrorring I)cnicd Nov. 12, Ig7-1.

Defendant u'as convicted in the Cir-
cuit Court, Lee County, L. J. Tyner, J., of
second-degree murder, and she appealed.
The Court of Criminal Appeals held that
the trial court did not err in overrtrling the
defendant's motion to appoint a lunacy
comnrission or to procure a report of the
superintendent of state hospitals; that
rvhere defendant u.as indicted by grand
jury, she was not entitled to preliminary
hearing; that defendant rvas not entitled
to a change of venue due to pretrial pub-
licity; that the trial court did not err in
admitting defendant's rvaiver of rights and
srrlrscrlucrrt statcllcnt irrto et'i<lcrrcc; that
critlcncc' scizc,l lr.r I ili ;rlr 11. il sclrrch of
llotcl forrt'tt rvlt. fc ,lli. l),1;,ll \!:i: :rrrt,sted
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