Boykin v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Sejimes. The indictment in this case charged the defendant with the larceny of “sixty oat sacks of the value of ten cents each, the property of the Mobile Street Railway Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Alabama.”
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Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. O. J. Sejimes. The indictment in this case charged the defendant with the larceny of “sixty oat sacks of the value of ten cents each, the property of the Mobile Street Railway Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Alabama.” On the trial, as the bill of exceptions shows, the only evidence offered by the State to prove the existence of the Mobile Street Railway Company as a corporation was the act of the General Assembly of Alabama, approved February 26, 1889, and entitled, “An act to amend the charter of the Mobile…
1Opinion of the CourtWalkeb, J.
Tbe act of tbe General Assembly wbiob is found in Acts of Ala. 1888-9, pp. 731 to 738, was admitted in evidence to prove that tbe Mobile Street Bailway Company is a corporation. Tbe act expressly recognizes that company as an existing corporation. Section 14 of tbe act ratines and confirms tbe organization of tbe company, originally made under its act of incorporation, and expressly declares tbe company to be a legal corporation. Nothing further remained to be done under tbe act to complete tbe incorporation. Tbe act as offered was competent evidence of tbe existence of tbe corporation. —…
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