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LOVELL v. STATE.

SAMFORD, J.

The defendant requested this charge:

"I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, if you do not believe from the evidence, beyond all reasonable doubt, that defendant fired the gun with the intent to kill Van Lovell, you must find your verdict for the defendant."

This charge was refused. This charge is obviously bad, for the reason that the lesser offenses are embraced in the indictment of either of which the defendant may have been guilty without having the specific intent to kill.

Everything said or done at or near the difficulty and closely connected therewith is a part of the res gestæ and admissible in evidence, but what was said and done at another time and place was not. Everything that took place while the difficulty was in progress was admissible, and what transpired at the still the morning before was not.

There were no exceptions reserved to the court's oral charge, in the absence of which this court will not review the statements of law contained therein. Montgomery v. State, 17 Ala. App. 469, 86 So. 132 (minority opinion); Ex parte State ex rel., etc., Montgomery v. State, 204 Ala. 389, 85 So. 785. The evidence presented a question of fact for the jury under a fair charge of the court, the therefore we will not disturb the finding.

We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.

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LOVELL v. STATE
(Jun 6, 1922)