Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Carmichael

SIMPSON, Justice.

The question for decision is whether or not Act No. 163, Local Acts of Alabama 1943, pp. 81 et seq., establishing the Cherokee Law and Equity Court and giving it jurisdiction of all noncapital criminal cases, contravenes that clause of § 143 of the Constitution of Alabama which provides that the circuit court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal within the State except as otherwise ordained by organic law.

The case is here to require the Honorable W. J. Haralson, as Judge of the Circuit Court of Cherokee County, to vacate his order transferring to…