Childress v. State

Jack Childress, alias, was indicted for second degree forgery by signing his name as one Billy Goodwyn to a fingerprint card at police headquarters in the City of Montgomery, Alabama.

Prior to trial, the appellant filed a motion to suppress averring that he had been unlawfully arrested by the Montgomery officers.

The trial court later allowed the appellant to preserve his exception to the ruling on the motion to suppress but thereafter the appellant, without waiving the motion to suppress, appeared and entered an intelligent and voluntary plea of guilty. He was sentenced to two years'…