Ex Parte Davis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Arthur Davis was convicted in the recorder’s court of a violation of the prohibition laws, and he appealed to the city court of Montgomery, which ordered his discharge, and from that judgment the city appealed to the Court of Appeals, where the cause was reversed and remanded (74 South. 730U, whereupon defendant petitioned for certiorari to review and revise the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Petitioner, Arthur Davis, was convicted in the recorder's court of the city of Montgomery of the violation of an ordinance of the city of Montgomery relating to prohibition. From the judgment of conviction he appealed to the city court of Montgomery, where, on a trial de novo, he was discharged; the city court holding that the ordinance in question was void and would not support a conviction. The city thereupon appealed to the Court of Appeals, which court reversed the judgment of the city court.
Defendant petitioner makes this application for the writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals,…
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