Welch v. City of Birmingham

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted in each of five separate cases (CC 80-00661 through CC 80-00665) in which he was charged with selling an alcoholic beverage without a license. He had been previously convicted in each case in the Municipal Court of the City of Birmingham and had appealed to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County and demanded a jury trial. Before the trial started, the trial court consolidated for trial all of the five cases, over the objection of defendant. During the process of interrogating the panel of jurors from which the jury to try the case…