Woods v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Roscoe Woods was convicted of injuring the property of another by the operation of a motor vehicle and failing to stop and give his number, etc., and he appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Roscoe Woods was convicted of injuring the property of another by the operation of a motor vehicle and failing to stop and give his number, etc., and he appeals. The complaint charges that defendant, while operating a motor vehicle, and knowing that injury had been caused to an automobile, the property of G. L. Smith, by such vehicle while being so operated, due to the culpability of Roscoe Woods, or to accident,- left the place of said injury or accident without stopping and giving his name and residence and operator’s license…
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, J.(1) The plea of former jeopardy was not well pleaded: The offense under the ordinance of reckless driving set up by the plea and that of the complaint under the statute for not stopping for purposes of identification were not the same; to have the effect of a good plea of autrefois acquit, the offenses must be substantially the same, both in law and fact. — Gordon’s Case, 71 Ala. 315; Code 1907, § 1222. The demurrers were properly sustained.(2) Appellant challenges as unconstitutional the following requirement of section 28 of the act regulating the use of motor vehicles upon public…
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