Carroll v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from'the Circuit Court of Lee. Tried before tbe Hon. James E. Cobb. Tbe appellant, C. A. Carroll, was tried, convicted and fined by one Thomas L. Kennedy, notary public, on a charge of trespass after warning. From tbe judgment of conviction an appeal was taken to the said Circuit Court, and a statement there filed by the solicitor, upon which the trial was had de novo.
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Appeal from'the Circuit Court of Lee. Tried before tbe Hon. James E. Cobb. Tbe appellant, C. A. Carroll, was tried, convicted and fined by one Thomas L. Kennedy, notary public, on a charge of trespass after warning. From tbe judgment of conviction an appeal was taken to the said Circuit Court, and a statement there filed by the solicitor, upon which the trial was had de novo. Said statement is as follows: On appeal from the justices’ court of Thomas L. Kennedy, notary public and justice of tbe peace, in and for said State and county, and beat number 2, tbe State of Alabama, by its solicitor,…
1Opinion of the CourtBbickell, C. J.
On the 8th of February, 1877, an act of the general assembly was approved, which confers on justices of the peace and notaries public, having like pow*400ers, in several counties, and of them tbe county of Lee, original jurisdiction concurrent witb tbe Circuit Court, of all misdemeanors committed in said counties. — Pampb. Acts 1876-7, p. 197. Tbe single question tbis case presents, is the validity of tbis enactment, so far as it confers jurisdiction on notaries public.
Tbe ninth section of tbe first article of tbe Constitution authorizes tbe general assembly to dispense witb a grand jury in…
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