Sherrod v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Ed Sherrod was convicted of the offense of using abusive language, and from a conviction in the city court appealed to the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the judgment of the lower court. See Sherrod, v. State, 14 Ala. App. 57, 71 South. 76. Whereupon he seeks certiorari to review the judgment and decision of the Court of Appeads.
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, C. J.(1) It is conceded that the city court and the recorder’s court of Bessemer had concurrent jurisdiction of the offense involved, and that the offense for which appellant was convicted in the city court included or was similar to the one for which the defendant had previously been tried in the recorder’s court. It is also conceded that the police officer had the right, under the existing law, to arrest the accused without affidavit or warrant, and take him before the recorder for the offense with which he was tried, as being a violation of a city ordinance. The accused had the…
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