Therefore, the trial court could take judicial knowledge of the fact that at the time Furman Jones testified in the previous trial he was a resident of South Carolina. It was held in South Highlands Infirmary v. Imperial Laundry Co., 25 Ala. App. 461, 149 So. 106, that residence in the state at a particular time, for aught appearing, presumably continued ever since. The sufficiency of a predicate for the introduction of testimony given by a witness on a former trial is addressed to the trial court's sound discretion.

PER CURIAM. Petition of South Highlands Infirmary for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that court in South Highlands Infirmary v. Imperial Laundry Co., 25 Ala. App. 461, 149 So. 106. Writ denied.

In view of the statements of counsel in the trial below, the initial cause of Speagle's unemployment is taken by both sides as determinative. The presumption of the continuance of his unemployment status until the end of the strike would seem to be a logical inference here, South Highlands Infirmary v. Imperial Laundry Co., 25 Ala. App. 461, 149 So. 106, State v. Retail Credit Co., 25 Ala. App. 568, 151 So. 474; 31 C.J.S. Evidence § 124 b (2). We cannot say the preponderance of the evidence is against the judgment below as to Speagle.