Hood v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The defendant was charged in the county court of Morgan county, in separate counts of the verified complaint, of the violation of sections 5 and 10 of the act approved October 28, 1932 (Gen. Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., pp. 178, 180, 181), known as the “Tidwell Bill,” defining and regulating “contract carriers and common carriers by motor vehicle not subject to the provisions of the Alabama Motor Carrier A.ct of 1931,” in that he operated, as a contract carrier or common carrier of persons, a motor vehicle for hire upon the public highways of the state without a permit, as required by…