Bell v. Town of Jonesboro
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwin. Sam Bell was convicted of violating an ordinance of the town of Jonesboro, and he appeals.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwin. Sam Bell was convicted of violating an ordinance of the town of Jonesboro, and he appeals. The complaint was as follows: “Comes the town of Jonesboro by its solicitor, and complains that within 60 days before the commencement of this prosecution Sam Bell did violate the terms of Ordinance No. 149 of the town of Jonesboro, in'substance as follows: “An ordinance to be entitled an ordinance to further suppress the evil of intemperance, and secure obedience to and the enforcement of and to prevent the evasion of the laws of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
The complaint in this case set out the title of an ordinance of the town of Jonesboro, which expressed the subject of it, also its number, and the sections of it claimed to have been violated. The averments sufficiently disclosed the existence of a municipal ordinance and the provisions of it which were alleged to have been violated.—Rosenberg v. City of Selma, 168 Ala. 195, 52 South. 742; Turner v. Town of *657Lineville, 2 Ala. App. 454, 56 South. 608. The question of the sufficiency of the general averment of the complaint of a violation by the defendant (the appellant here) of the terms of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Turner v. Town of LinevilleAlabama Court of Appeals · 1911
- Rosenberg v. City of SelmaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
- Woodruff v. StewartSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
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