O'Brien v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Anniston, Tried before the Hon. B. F. Oassady. Indictment for retailing liquor without license, and contrary to law. Motion to quash, and plea in abatement, on. account of defects in grand jury. Motion overruled, and demurrer sustained to plea.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The act to establish the City Court of Anniston was approved February 25, 1889. — Sess. Acts, 564. The court has two regular terms in each year; commencing the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October, each to continue until the business is disposed of. The statute contains another clause, declaring that the court “shall continue open until thirty days before the first day of the next term thereafter;” so that the court is kept open, in law, if not in fact, ten months in the year. Another provision of the statute authorizes temporary adjournments of the court during the term,…
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