Harmon v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwm From a conviction of keeping a gaming table, Frank Harmon appeals. Charge 1 was the affirmative charge.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwm From a conviction of keeping a gaming table, Frank Harmon appeals. Charge 1 was the affirmative charge. “Charge 21. The court instructs the jury that certain officers have testified in this case on behalf of the state, and that, under the law, in weighing their testimony, greater care should be used because of the natural and unavoidable tendency of such persons in procuring and stating evidence against the defendant.” Under the facts in this case, defendant was entitled to have his case transferred and the court was in error in…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS1, J. —
By an act of the Legislature approved February 21, 1901 (Acts 1911-01, p. 1854), the city court of Bessemer was established to sit at Bessemer, and, in addition to a defined law and equity jurisdiction, it was given criminal jurisdiction of all felonies and misdemeanors committed within certain named precincts of Jefferson county, to be exercised concurrently therein with the criminal court of Jefferson county, sitting at Birmingham, whose territorial jurisdiction as to all such crimes extended, not only over the precincts named, but was coincident with the limits of the entire…
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