Walker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From: the Criminal Court of Pike. Tried before Hon. ¥k. H. Parks. This prosecution was commenced on the 12th December, 1889, by an affidavit, or complaint on oath, made by Dennis Ramsey, before Lucius Reeves, a justice of the peace of said county, charging that William Walker “unlawfully or wantonly kill one cow, the personal property of Dennis Ramsey, of the value of $20.” The justice thereupon issued his warrant for the arrest of said Walker, “to answer a charge of…
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From: the Criminal Court of Pike. Tried before Hon. ¥k. H. Parks. This prosecution was commenced on the 12th December, 1889, by an affidavit, or complaint on oath, made by Dennis Ramsey, before Lucius Reeves, a justice of the peace of said county, charging that William Walker “unlawfully or wantonly kill one cow, the personal property of Dennis Ramsey, of the value of $20.” The justice thereupon issued his warrant for the arrest of said Walker, “to answer a charge of unlawfully or wantonly killing a cow, the personal property of Dennis Ramsey,” &c.; and made it returnable before the next…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
There is nothing in the objection, that the warrant was issued by a justice of the peace, returnable to the Criminal Court. The statute expressly provides for it. — -Act to establish a criminal court of Pike county, approved February 25, 1889; Sess. Acts, 631, §3; Code of 1886, § 4204. Nor is there any thing in the objection, that the affidavit employs the present, instead of the past tense, in describing the killing. The meaning can not be misunderstood.
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