Stone v. State Ex Rel. Berney

The sole question presented for decision on this appeal is the validity and constitutionality of the following act of the Legislature (Gen. Acts 1923, pp. 125, 126):

“Section 1. That in all circuits of the state of Alabama, which are composed of only one county, having more than two judges and less than nine judges, or in circuits which may hereafter be composed of only one county, having more than two judges and less than nine judges, each judge shall receive an annual salary of seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00); four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) of the salary of each of said judges shall be…