England v. State

Response to Question Certified by the Court of Appeals.

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

Under the provisions of section 7322 of the 1923 Code of Alabama, the Court of Appeals has certified to this court for determination the following question: “Is the following Act of the Legislature of Alabama unconstitutional? To wit. ‘An Act To regulate the trials of misdemeanors in Lawrence County? Local Acts of Alabama 1919, p. 86 et seq.”

While the question propounded by the Court of Appeals is very general in its scope, we take it that the inquiry concerns the validity of the act only in so far as its validity is…