State v. Kirkpatrick

The questions presented by this appeal involve tire validity and construction of the local statutes affecting the public road system of Walker county; If the acts of the Legislature of 1919 hereinafter set out are valid and, compass and embrace the whole subject, then the trial judge was in error in discharging the defendant.

The law insisted upon by the state as being the governing force respecting the subject is contained in two acts of the Legislature of 1919, the latter amendatory of the former, and when read as now amended is as follows:

“An act to create a county highway commission for…