Connelly v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the County Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. William Richardson. The indictment in this case was found by a grand jury of the Circuit Court, and the case was transferred to the County Court, under the provisions of the act approved February 9, 1877, entitled “ An act to regulate the trial of misdemeanors in Madison county.” — Session Acts 1876-7, p. 149. On the case being called, as the minute-entry recites, “the defendant is asked by the court if he'will have a…
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From the County Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. William Richardson. The indictment in this case was found by a grand jury of the Circuit Court, and the case was transferred to the County Court, under the provisions of the act approved February 9, 1877, entitled “ An act to regulate the trial of misdemeanors in Madison county.” — Session Acts 1876-7, p. 149. On the case being called, as the minute-entry recites, “the defendant is asked by the court if he'will have a jury, and waives a jury in open court; and thereupon, after hearing the evidence,” all of which is set out in the bill of…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The act “to regulate the trial of misdemeanors in Madison county,” approved February 9th, 1877 — Pamph. Acts, 149 — confers on the County Court of that county jurisdiction, concurrent with the Circuit Court of said county, “for the trial of all misdemeanors, except violations of the revenue laws of this State.” The statute then provides *91for the transfer to the County Court, on the day of adjournment of each succeeding term of the Circuit Court, of all such causes as were pending in said Circuit Court, and undetermined at the time of such adjournment; and thereupon, “the jurisdiction of the…
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