Brandon v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded this case, on a holding that the indictment was subject'to the demurrer interposed. The point on which it was held that the ruling was error is that there was no such office as “Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama,” known to the law. The indictment charged that defendant was such officer; that he knowingly converted to his own use money which was paid into his office or received by him in his official capacity. It was held that there was no such office because the…