Gray v. Strickland
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Hale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. B. M. Miller, Action by James L. Strickland against J. E. Gray for false imprisonment. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $250,- and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Hale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. B. M. Miller, Action by James L. Strickland against J. E. Gray for false imprisonment. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $250,- and defendant appeals. The following charges were given at the instance of the plaintiff: “(1) The court charges the jury that, if they believe the evidence in this case, the detention of the plaintiff from the time he was taken from Wedge-worth’s store and brought to Greensboro and placed in jail until he was carried back to the point on the railroad where Wedgeworth’s store is situated was in violation of the…
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, J.-
The judgment in this case having been rendered before the Code of 1907 went into effect, the appellant had one year, instead of six months, within which to take his appeal.—Poull & Co. v. Foy-Hays Construction Co., 159 Ala. 453, 48 South. 785. The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.
Under the common law the sureties upon a defendant’s bail had the unquestioned right to arrest him at pleasure and surrender him into the hands of the law, and this could be done without the issuance of process. —3 Am. & Eng. Ency.. Law, 708; Bearden v. State, 89 Ala. 21, 7 South. 755; State v.…
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