Jordan v. Sumners

It is a well-settled principle of constitutional law, in Alabama, that statutes enacted by the Legislature are presumed to be constitutional, and will not.be declared unconstitutional unless they so appear beyond all reasonable doubt. State ex rel. Vandiver v. Burke, Judge, 175 Ala. 561, 57 So. 870.

This principle applies to statutes adopted as a part of the Code in pursuance of section 85 of the Constitution of 1901.

Section S003, new to the Code of 1923 and written therein by the Code Commission, was adopted along with the other statutes constituting Chapter 296 of the Code, among others…