Lide v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie ’City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. The appellant, Sam Lide, was indicted and tried.for the murder of A. B. Johnson, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penijtentiáry for life.
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Appeal from tlie ’City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. The appellant, Sam Lide, was indicted and tried.for the murder of A. B. Johnson, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penijtentiáry for life. On the 19th day of March, after the -regular grand jury organized for the February term of the Montgomery city court had been 'discharged, the court made an order, reciting that it haying been made to appear that during the then, February term of the court, and since the regularly organized grand jury had been 'discharged., A. B. Johnson had been…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The city court of Montgomery, though an inferior court únd of statutory creation, is, in all criminal matters, a court of general jurisdiction. Acts of 1863, p. 121. Under the act of its creation, and acts amendatory thereof, in the organization of grand and petit juries, in the administration of the criminal law, it possesses like powers to those conferred by statute on circuit courts. By the statute, (Acts, 1869-70, p. 47), there are three regular terms a'year, commencing on the third Monday in February, and the second Mondays in July and October. At the' February tenn, 1900, which was…
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