Young v. City of Hokes Bluff

The appellant was convicted of DUI in municipal court. She appealed to the circuit court for trial de novo. The City timely filed the notice of appeal, the appeal bond, and the transcript of the municipal court proceeding. That transcript included the charging instrument — the UTTC — on which the municipal court prosecution had been based. In circuit court the City did not "make a brief statement of the cause of complaint," in compliance with Ala. Code 1975, § 12-22-113. The appellant demanded a prosecuting attorney's complaint. She claimed that the complaint was mandated by § 12-22-113, and…