Harper v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court of Shelby. Tried before the Hon. John S. Leeper. The facts of the case are sufficiently indicated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the County Court of Shelby. Tried before the Hon. John S. Leeper. The facts of the case are sufficiently indicated in the opinion. The title of the act approved February 18, 189.5, does not “clearly express” the act which the first section amends, but names an act entirely different from the act amended. — Acts 1894-95, p. 1088; 3 Brick.'Dig. p. 132, §§ 8.1 to 87. Section one of said act embraces not only the trial of misdemeanors, but also the trial of felonies, which is not expressed in the title of the act itself, nor in the titles of the acts of February 12th, 1891, and of…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
On February 4th, 1895,, the defendant was arrested for the alleged offense of trespass after *30warning on the premises of Tillman Raines, on a warrant issued-in due form by the clerk of the county court of said county, and gave bond for his appearance at the next term of the county court of said county of Shelby, to answer said charge. He appeared at the August term of said court, and was tried for said offense, found guilty, and fined $25.
The defendant objected to going to trial on the ground, as alleged, “that said act, approved February 18, 1895, under which defendant was held for trial, was…
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