Cross v. City of Decatur

HARRIS, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Decatur on October 18, 1976, of the crime of assaulting a police officer while he was engaged in the active discharge of his lawful duties. He was fined one hundred dollars and costs.

He appealed this conviction and demanded a jury trial.

Omitting the formal parts the complaint upon which appellant was put to trial, reads:

“Comes now the City of Decatur, a Municipal Corporation, in Morgan County, Alabama, and complains that Jerry Allen Cross within twelve months before the beginning of this prosecution and…