Welch v. City of Birmingham

The majority states that a municipal employee is subject to challenge for cause as a juror to try a case in which the prosecution is based on a violation of an ordinance of that municipality. Lightfoot v. City of Birmingham, 36 Ala.App. 77, 52 So.2d 398 (1951), Shapiro v. City of Birmingham, 30 Ala.App. 563, 10 So.2d 38 (1942), but that bias would not be implied of a state employee in a prosecution involving a violation of the criminal law of the State. Thigpen v. State, 355 So.2d 392, 398 (Ala.Cr.App.), affirmed, 355 So.2d 400 (Ala.1977), McAdory v. State, 37 Ala.App. 349, 68 So.2d 68…