Bails v. State

BBQWN, J. (1, 2) Tbe testimony of tbe witness Fullington as to the statement made by Cartledge in tbe presence and hearing of tbe defendant at tbe depot while Cartledge was identifying the saw in question as the property stolen from Brasseale’s mill, in connection with tbe question of tbe witness to tbe defendant referring [274] to the statement of Cartledge, “Bails, what you got to say to that?” and defendant’s answer to this question, to wit, “Well, I tell you, Mr. Fullington; you just let them have the saw, and I will g0' right after that fellow that I got it from; I’ll sho- make him do about,” was necessary to make clear the purport and meaning of the question of the witness and defendant’s answer, which was, in effect, an admission of the identity of the saw found at the depot with the property alleged to have been stolen. The identification of the property was a fact essential to the state’s case. — Underhill on Criminal Evidence, § 296. “Whenever evidence of an act is in itself competent and admissible as a material fact in the case, and is so admitted, the declarations accompanying and characterizing such act become and form a part of the res gestae of the act, and, as such, are competent and admissible in evidence as being explanatory of the act.”—Campbell v. State, 133 Ala. 87, 31 South. 804, 91 Am. St. Rep. 17; Maddox v. State, 159 Ala. 53, 48 South. 689; Harris v. State, 177 Ala. 22, 59 South. 205. (3) On a poll of the jury one of the jurors, in response to the question propounded by the court, “Is that your verdict?” answered by a nod of the head in the affirmative, and added, “I consented to it.” This was sufficient to indicate that this juror agreed to and acquiesced in the verdict.—McAlpine v. State, 177 Ala. 93, 23 South. 130; Rudder v. State, 12 Ala. App. 72, 67 South. 738. (4) This court will not review the action of the trial court in overruling motion for new trial in a criminal case.—Burrage v. State, 113 Ala. 108, 21 South. 213; Dorsey v. State, 107 Ala. 157, 18 South. 199. There is no error in this record, and the judgment is affirmed. Affirmed.