Law v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Order of the Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit. Heard before the Hon. H. A. Peaece. The appellant in this case, Gus Law, was arrested and imprisoned in the county jail of Houston county, by virtue of a warrant issued by the Hon. George Leslie, who was the judge of probate and county judge of said county.
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Appeal from the Order of the Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit. Heard before the Hon. H. A. Peaece. The appellant in this case, Gus Law, was arrested and imprisoned in the county jail of Houston county, by virtue of a warrant issued by the Hon. George Leslie, who was the judge of probate and county judge of said county. While so imprisoned, the said Law filed his petition addressed to the Hon. H. A. Pierce, judge of the 12th judicial circuit, for a writ of habeas corpus, for the purpose of being discharged from such imprisonment. The grounds of the discharge, as set forth in the petition,…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The principal, and we might say, the only question presented for our consideration and determination, is one that involves the validity of the act of the legislature creating the new county of Houston.
The only insistence against the validity of the act, is based upon the theory of a failure to give the notice as required in § 106 of the Constitution. And that such failure to comply with the requirements of said section as to notice, consisted in the omission to state the substance of the proposed law in the notice that was given. The sole question then is, did the notice which was given…
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