Ex parte Washington
Alabama Court of Appeals
Violating Municipal Ordinaoice. Appeal from Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. H. B. Foster. Mandy Washington was convicted for violating an ordinance of the city of Tuscaloosa, the trial being had before one Traweek, temporarily appointed recorder of the .city, and she brings habeas corpus alleging want of authority in said Traweek to render the judgment of conviction and impose the sentence. From an order declining to discharge her-, she appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, J.(1) The appeal is from an order of the judge of the Tuscaloosa county court declining to discharge the petitioner, appellant, on habeas corpus. Her alleged right to a discharge was predicated in the petition upon the. ground that the judgment of conviction under which she was restrained of her liberty was null and void, in that P. B. Traweek, who rendered the judgment, while acting as recorder of the city of Tuscaloosa in a case wherein he was trying the petitioner for the violation of a municipal ordinance, “was,” in the language of the petition, “wholly without power or authority…
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