McKinnon v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence after a jury had found defendant guilty of harassment as charged in a complaint and as defined in Alabama Criminal Code, § 13A-ll-8(a), as follows:

“A person commits a crime of harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise touches a person or subjects him to physical contact.”

The trial court fixed his punishment at three months’ hard labor for the county and a fine of five hundred dollars. The defendant had appealed to the Circuit…