Ray v. City of Prichard

CATES, Judge.

This is a purported appeal from a judgment of conviction of a breach of a city ordinance requiring a permit to parade on city streets

I

Although the Clerk of the Circuit Court left a blank page therefor, this record comes here without any assignments of error. See Supreme Court Rule 1.

II

A writ of error is a proceeding in an “appellate” or revisory higher court where-under the judges are authorized to examine a record on which a judgment has been given in a lower court of record. Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 409, 410, 5 L.Ed. 257.

This concept of essentially a new suit led to…