Reeves v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Pike County. Tried before the Hon. E. B. Wilkerson. The prosecution in this case was commenced by a complaint being made before a justice of the peace of Pike county, charging the appellant, Mary Reeyes, with living in adultery with one Henry Myhan. The complaint was signed by “Hattie Patterson.”
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Pike County. Tried before the Hon. E. B. Wilkerson. The prosecution in this case was commenced by a complaint being made before a justice of the peace of Pike county, charging the appellant, Mary Reeyes, with living in adultery with one Henry Myhan. The complaint was signed by “Hattie Patterson.” In the body of the complaint and in the warrant which was issued thereon, the person making the complaint is described * as “Hattie Patison:” Upon the making of the complaint the justice of the peace issued the warrant setting forth therein the offense charged, as…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The warrant of. arrest issued by a justice of the peace was properly made returnable to the criminal court of Pike county.— Walker v. State, 89 Ala. 74.
The names Patison and Patterson are, it would seem, idem sonans. — 16 Am. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, p. 122, note, p. 124; Taylor v. Rogers, 1 Ala. 197; Jackson v. Cody, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 140; Petrie v. Woodworth, 3 Caine, (N.Y.), 219; Page v. State, 61 Ala. 16; Aaron v. State, 37 Ala. 106; Edmundson v. State, 17 Ala. 179; Gresham v. Walker, 10 Ala. 370. But whether so or not, it is manifest from the complaint in this case that the Hattie Patterson,…
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