Nix v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

This prosecution was for a violation of section 4158 et seq. of the Code of 1923, as amended by an act of the Legislature of Alabama approved August 20, 1927 (Gen.Acts 1927, p. 286), as amended by Gen. Acts 1931, p. 648, known as the bad check law. It originated in the above-stated court upon the affidavit of the alleged injured party, one N. A. Smith, and upon the warrant issued thereon.

Defendant interposed demurrers to the complaint insisting that the complaint (1) charged no offense known to the law, and (2) that the statutes, upon which this prosecution is based,…