Legal Opinion

Shields v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided March 26, 1957No. 7 Div. 460PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment charged defendant with-transporting prohibited liquors in a quantity of five gallons or more.

To the indictment defendant filed pleas of former jeopardy. Plea one shows-, that defendant was convicted and fined in the Mayor’s Court of the City of Ashville, Alabama, for an offense committed within-the police jurisdiction, alleging in said' plea that his conviction in the Mayor’s-Court “was based upon and is of the same matters and transactions as is alleged against this defendant in this indictment.”

Plea two shows that defendant was tried' and convicted in the Mayor’s…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1939
  2. Harris v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1900
  3. Howell v. City of Fort PayneSupreme Court of Alabama · 1945

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Smith v. City of IrondaleCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
  2. Lazarte v. City of Mountain BrookCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1970

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