Oakley v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Walker Law and Equity Court. Tried before the Hon. W. B. Appling. The appellant in this ease, Oscar Oakley, was tried under the following incUctment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Oscar Oakley alias Oscar Berry forcibly ravished Mattie Oakley, a female.
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Appeal from the Walker Law and Equity Court. Tried before the Hon. W. B. Appling. The appellant in this ease, Oscar Oakley, was tried under the following incUctment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Oscar Oakley alias Oscar Berry forcibly ravished Mattie Oakley, a female. “The grand jury of said county further charge that before the finding of this indictment Oscar Oakley, alias Oscar Berry, did carnally know, or abuse in the attempt to carnally know Mattie Oakley, a female, under the age of fourteen years, against 'the peace and dignity of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
An act approved December 5th, 1900, created the “Walker County Law and Equity Court” and declared it “shall have and exercise all the jurisdiction and powers which are now or may hereafter he by law conferred upon the several circuit, chancery and county courts of the State.” It provided that “when exercising the jurisdiction and powers -of courts at law said court shall conform to the rules of procedure and practice in the circuit courts of this State,” and further “that in the' absence of any special jury law for the county of Walker, that the grand and petit juries for said *21court shall be…
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