Alford v. State ex rel. Attorney General
Supreme Court of Alabama
•Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Mandamus by the State on the relation of the Attorney General against J. E. Alford, Judge, to require him-to restore certain, cases to Ms docket which had been transferred by his order to the city court and to require him to proceed to try such cases without a jury. From a judgment granting the writ respondent appeals. The facts are sufficiently set out in the opinion of the court.
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•Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Mandamus by the State on the relation of the Attorney General against J. E. Alford, Judge, to require him-to restore certain, cases to Ms docket which had been transferred by his order to the city court and to require him to proceed to try such cases without a jury. From a judgment granting the writ respondent appeals. The facts are sufficiently set out in the opinion of the court. The Fuller hill will he found in Gen. & Loc. Acts Sp. Bess. 1909, p. 63. Section 82 will be found on page 92, and is as follows; “That all…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This appeal is to test the propriety of the issuance of a mandamus from the Mobile city court to the. judge of the inferior criminal court of Mobile, commanding him to reinstate on the trial docket of his court 14 criminal cases, against as many defendants, for violations of the state prohibition laws; and ■directing him, as judge of said court, to proceed in the hearing of such cases until a final judgment in each is rendered in the inferior criminal court of Mobile county. The prosecution in each of the cases was instituted by affidavit and warrant from that court, made returnable thereto.…
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